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St. Michael’s Cemetery
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Salem Covenant Church
salemcovpennock.org
7811 135th St. NW
Pennock, MN, 56279
Our History:
In 1871, a small group of Swedish settlers came to Kandiyohi county and decided it was important to have a place to gather and worship. The first of these settlers was John Rodman from Varmland, Sweden. John Rodman gathered the new settlers together and built a church in an oak grove on the shore of a lake and named it Mamre Lund.
Later, John Rodman joined another church being organized by the veteran Covenant preacher, J.G. Sjoquist and this church was called Salem. But in order to not drive so far to church, John Rodman began organizing another church just two miles east of his homestead and called this place Lundby.
Nils Frykman served both Salem and Lundby (as well as 3 others) for many years. He arrived in the area to be the Pastor of the Salem circuit in 1889. Besides helping lead many people to Christ, some of the greatest hymns were written during Frykman's time of ministry at Salem. One most notably being "I Have a Friend Who Loveth Me", written in twenty minutes during Frykmans drive home.
These hardy pioneers withstood many hardships in those early years and exemplified perseverance and dedication in their effort to establish this church on the prairie of Mamre township.
I have a friend who loveth me.
He gave His life on Calvary;
Upon the cross my sins He bore,
And I am saved forever more.
At the time of Salem's centennial, a Pioneer Memorial plaque was included in the front sign of Salem Covenant. It reads:
" In grateful memory of those courageous men and women who crossed a thousand miles of storm-tossed ocean, subdued a frontier wilderness, and forged a living faith in the fires of adversity and those kindred souls who followed them in like precious faith giving substance to their dreams and shaping a holy heritage of spiritual life
for the church of tomorrow."
"Today the old country church is now but a fading memory in the shadow of the imposing house of worship that arrests the view of all who pass by. The spire reaching heavenward extends a welcome to the community and claims for miles around that Salem is a church alive and vibrant in the ministry of the gospel. The church remains the glory of the Fathers and a guide to their children."
- Pastor Jerry Stenberg
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Meet Your Senator
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State lawmaker pushes tourism as way for Lawrence to replace IP tax dollars
State Sen. Garlan Gudger said promoting the county as a tourist destination would make residents forget about International Paper shutting its Courtland mill five years ago, taking 1,100 jobs and millions of tax dollars with it.
“Within five years, we’ll be way past IP,” said Gudger, R-Cullman, at a town hall meeting in Moulton on Monday night. “We can get there with tourism. It brings people in from out of town. Tourists won’t be using infrastructure. They’ll buy things from the 7-11, buy gas, buy something here before they keep cruising down the road or going back home.
State Sen.Gudger appointed to Alabama Small Business Commission
"In a statement, Gudger expressed his strong support of small businesses across the Yellowhammer State.
“Small businesses are the backbone of Alabama’s economy — as of 2017, Alabama is home to over 382,000 small businesses, and 47 percent of Alabamians are employed by a small business,” he outlined.
“It’s an honor to be named to the Commission, and I look forward to working with other commission members to identify new ways to make the process of starting and sustaining a business easier and more efficient,” Gudger said......."
Firefighter Cancer Benefit Act Momentous For Firefighters and Municipalities
"The recent passage of the Firefighter Cancer Benefit Act is being celebrated across Alabama and by Fire Service organizations nationally as a significant step in protecting our firefighters from the dangers they face. Increase cancers in firefighters have been recognized for years and while we work to increase prevention efforts, we know we can't eliminate toxic exposures or erase those who have already experienced."
The League is grateful to Gov. Ivey for her support and to Sen. Garlan Gudger for sponsoring the bill in Senate and Rep. Phil Pettus for sponsoring in the House.
Mental health bill sponsored by Gudger, goes to Ivey
"The Alabama Legislature on Thursday passed a bill that would allow people who have been temporarily committed for mental health reasons to be kept for further care, even after the expiration of their court-ordered commitments, under certain conditions. The bill was sponsored in the Senate by Sen. Garlan Gudger, R-Cullman, while a partner bill was introduced in the House by Rep. Randall Shedd, R-Fairview. Gudger’s was the first to get through, and went to Gov. Kay Ivey for signing with the support of both legislators, along with that of the Cullman area’s other legislators."
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Column: Will Dodgers’ bullpen doom title hopes? ‘We’re going to figure it out’
Dodgers pitcher Dylan Floro walks off after being relieved in the seventh inning against the Tampa Bay Rays on May 22.
(Mike Carlson / Getty Images)
By Andy McCullough
A drumbeat of unease follows Dodgers relievers wherever they tread. Most games, the noise burbles in the background, obscured by the team’s propulsive offense and smothering starting pitching. On some nights, it sounds like a roar. The relievers understand its meaning. On a team on pace for more than 100 wins, they are the weak link.
“We all, including myself, need to step up to another level,” closer Kenley Jansen said. “Because we can see how elite this team is this year.”
It would be presumptive to crown the Dodgers in June as champions of the National League West for a seventh consecutive season. Yet it is difficult to envision the sort of calamities required to create an actual race with the Arizona Diamondbacks or the Colorado Rockies. The Dodgers understand they belong in October, when their bullpen will undergo the stress tests they failed in the World Series the past two seasons.
Coasting in the division, the Dodgers face a more unbending opponent in the form of a calendar. The front office has less than two months before the July 31 trade deadline to add talent from outside the organization. And the coaching staff has three and a half months to revive the relievers on the roster, the group that had posted a 4.41 earned-run average heading into Friday’s games, which ranked 18th in baseball.
Jansen has been effective, if prone to home runs. The duo of Ross Stripling and Julio Urias offers length. Pedro Baez has rebounded from a shaky April. The rest of the group is worrisome. The signing of Joe Kelly has proved disastrous. Dylan Floro has a 7.45 ERA since April. Left-handers Scott Alexander and Caleb Ferguson have struggled, with Alexander placed on the injured list with a sore forearm this week.
“We’ve got to get Alexander healthy,” manager Dave Roberts said. “We’ve got Ferguson back. And I think that the thing that we’re all talking about is we’ve got to get Joe Kelly back on track.”
The bullpen is unlikely to prevent the Dodgers from reaching the postseason. But it causes enough worry to occupy the thoughts of the front office. Andrew Friedman, the team’s president of baseball operations, outlined a two-pronged approach for the weeks ahead. He was explicit about his interest in finding external upgrades.
“We are viewing this from a very practical standpoint, that the production in our ‘pen has not been good enough,” Friedman said. “And so all of our collective focus is on how to help each guy perform at or above their established watermarks.
“And all the while, be navigating the trade market, and seeing what’s potentially available, either sooner or mid-to-late July. They’re not mutually exclusive. So our focus is on those parallel tracks.”
The relief market usually teems with options. There are always mediocre teams who employ talented relievers. The American League Central overflows with choices this year. If the Cleveland Indians elect to sell, closer Brad Hand could be available. Both Chicago White Sox closer Alex Colome and Detroit Tigers closer Shane Greene could be moved.
Another option resides on the roster of the Dodgers’ main rival. San Francisco Giants closer Will Smith entered the weekend with a 2.03 ERA while striking out 12.8 batters every nine innings. The traditional frostiness between the Dodgers and Giants might be thawed this summer, given Friedman’s relationship with Giants president of baseball operations Farhan Zaidi, who was the Dodgers’ general manager from 2015 to 2018.
A left-handed pitcher such as Hand or Smith would be ideal, given the inconsistency of Alexander and the regression of Ferguson. But the Dodgers may not need to get hung up on specifics. Any upgrade will do.
“We need a dude,” one Dodgers official lamented last month.
Added one National League talent evaluator: “When you have a bad bullpen, it’s absolutely demoralizing. I have no idea how the Dodgers get away with it.”
The team compensates by excelling in other phases of the game. The Dodgers create leads large enough to breathe easy in the later frames. But they may not have that luxury in October.
More troubling than the group’s collective ERA is its inability to miss bats. The bullpen entered Friday ranked 25th in the majors with 8.69 strikeouts per nine innings. Jansen has done his part, with 37 strikeouts through his first 26 2/3 innings, but the rest of the unit has been more hittable.
Dodgers reliever Joe Kelly has struggled mightily this season.
(Aaron Doster / Associated Press)
Bullpen coach Mark Prior pointed to a conundrum. The bullpen is third in the game in least walks allowed. The relievers fill up the zone with strikes, Prior said. That can become a problem.
“It’s a good thing, but it’s also a bad thing that we’re in the zone maybe too much, too late in counts,” Prior said. “When we’re getting to two strikes, we’re not expanding with our secondary [pitches] like we need to, and we’re living too close to the zone.”
Prior noted a sequence with Floro against Angels star Mike Trout in Monday’s loss at Angel Stadium. Floro pulled ahead in the count, then allowed a 1-2 slider to sweep over the plate. Trout tied the score with a home run; Kelly combusted an inning later to hand the Angels the game.
“We’ve definitely got to get some expansion,” Prior said. “We were really good at it last year. But we just haven’t dialed it in enough on that.”
A shaky bullpen does not foretell doom in the postseason. The Chicago Cubs won a title in 2016 when manager Joe Maddon trusted few relievers besides closer Aroldis Chapman. The Boston Red Sox triumphed in 2018 despite a series of stumbles from closer Craig Kimbrel.
In between, the Houston Astros downed the Dodgers in 2017 despite the hierarchy of their relief corps collapsing in the American League Championship Series. Manager A.J. Hinch lost faith in closer Ken Giles and chose to improvise on a nightly basis. He later viewed the freedom as an asset.
“It turned out to be a strength for us,” Hinch told The Times last year. “Because then I could do whatever I wanted, and there were no ramifications with stress on the pitchers. I literally could do all hands on deck from the very beginning of the series.”
Even without upgrades, the Dodgers might have enough pitching assets available to assemble a reliable bullpen. Kenta Maeda is likely to join the group in October. Both Stripling and Urias could blossom in their roles as multi-inning firemen. Baez could repeat his breakout performance from last autumn.
Until then, the drumbeat will continue. The bullpen looms as the shaky pillar of this Dodgers roster, capable of capsizing the goal which has eluded them since 1988.
“We want this bad,” Jansen said. “We all want this bad, just like [the fans] do, we want this bad too. It’s not fun losing in the World Series back to back years. It’s miserable. We’re pissed off. We want it bad. We’re going to figure it out. We have good potential.”
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The decade saw the Lakers stumble, the Rams return to town and to the Super Bowl, and the Dodgers fail to win a World Series. Oh, and the Balls stole headlines.
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Drew Buggs scored 12 points and tied his career high with 12 assists, Zigmars Raimo and Justin Webster combined to score 16 of their 21 points in the second half, and Hawaii beat UC Santa Barbara 70-63
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A contest between the oldest and youngest players in the women’s draw and a big lineup of defending champions on Rod Laver Arena will highlight Day 1 of the Australian Open
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South Africa Discussion Group (5) Apply South Africa Discussion Group filter
‘Queer provocations, nightlife and popular culture in Kinshasa’
Thomas Hendriks (University of Oxford)
24 November 2016 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Thomas Hendriks, Departmental Lecturer at the African Studies Centre, discusses the topic ‘Queer provocations, nightlife and popular culture in Kinshasa’.
South Africa Discussion Group
The unravelling of the ANC
Salim Vally (University of Johannesburg)
Cholera and the Politics of Disposability in Harare's High-Density Townships
Simukai Chigudu (University of Oxford)
In August 2008, the impoverished high-density townships in Harare’s metropolitan area were engulfed by a devastating cholera epidemic. The disease rapidly spread throughout Zimbabwe resulting in an... Read more
They go out to be seen": space, place and recognition in Johannesburg nightclubs
Beth Vale (Wits University)
African Studies Seminar Room, 13 Bevington Road, Oxford
Power, contested institutions and land: repoliticising analysis of natural resources, conflict and peacebuilding in Darfur
Brendan Bromwich (King’s College London)
Is voter turnout higher if people know an election is close? Experimental evidence from the Johannesburg 2016 elections
Kate Orkin (Oxford University)
The Gambela Years: SPLA soldiers' memories of exile, 1983-1991
Sebabatso Manoeli (University of Oxford)
Sebabatso Manoeli, Departmental Lecturer in African History at the African Studies Centre, discusses the topic 'The Gambela Years: SPLA soldiers' memories of exile, 1983-1991’. In this lecture,... Read more
Modernist architecture and the global politics of heritage management: the case of Asmara, Eritrea
Edward Denison (University College London)
8 November 2016 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Edward Denison (University College London) discusses modernist architecture and heritage in this week's Horn of Africa seminar.
An unarmed Struggle: The ANC's battle for health in exile
Melissa Armstrong (Carleton University)
Melissa Armstrong (Carleton University) discusses the African National Congress in this week's South Africa Discussion Group.
‘Mau Mau and Rastafari: Kenya’s War in Jamaica at the End of Empire
Myles Osborne (University of Colorado, Boulder)
Co-hosted by the Race and Resistance Network, University of Oxford .
Panel discussion - The changing faces of Ethiopia’s “rural” communities: evidence from Ethiopia WIDE
Pip Bevan (Mokoro), Catherine Dom (Mokoro), Sarah Vaughan (Edinburgh)
The Horn of Africa Seminar brings together students and scholars interested in examining the region from a multidisciplinary and comparative perspective. This term, the seminar will look at a variety... Read more
Is the decline of the ANC really such a good thing? Politics after the end of one-party dominance
David Adler (Oxford University)
Please note that this week's South Africa Discussion Group will take place in the African Studies Seminar Room, 13 Bevington Road.
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THE LAST HIGHLANDER
THE PRINCE WHO WOULD BE KING
Imagine the ’45 succeeded… that’s what we’ll do at Wigtown book Festival Saturday 23 Sept, 2017
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What might a Jacobite victory have meant for the cause of Scottish Nationalism? Millions have watched the first episodes of Outlander Season 3. They dramatise vividly the failure of the ’45 and the consequences of defeat on Culloden Moor for the combatants and anyone unlucky enough to be see to be close to them.
But …. if Prince Charles had succeeded, what issues would he have to address? For example, will the Union survive? Do the male Stuarts make a better fist of ruling this time round? Are Catholics welcome? Is there a Highland and clan problem? At the Wigtown Book Festival next weekend, Jackie Riding and I are going to talk it over with Stuart Kelly.
There were many nationalists among the Jacobites. The state of the Union concerned them. Many wanted Britain to return to the 1603 Union of Crowns to create a genuine multi-kingdom monarchy. In 1603, only the Crowns were united. The state stayed separate. The machinery of state – parliaments, armed forces, religion, law – all those things governing and regulating life, would have remained independent. If so, then King James VIII & III would recall a Scottish Parliament in 1746-47, moving the wielding of power in Scotland back to Scotland.
Even that most outrageous, slippery Jacobite, Simon Fraser, Lord Lovat of the ’45, was sincere in his Scottish Nationalist anti-Unionism. He called it, ‘This infernal Union’, Cette Union Infernelle.
Thirty years after the ’45, Scottish big wigs in the British establishment wondered if what they created in 1707 was working. One night Henry Dundas, Scotsman and British Secretary of State, burst ‘into an invective against the English’ claiming he was going to ‘move for a repeal of the Union.’ Another Scot, living south of the border thought that ‘if the English are to be treated as sons, but the Scots as step-sons … then let the Union be dissolved.’ Stepsons inherit nothing of the parents’ estate. He was talking in 1763, nearly 20 after Culloden.
Famously, Dr Samuel Johnson said ‘of England were fairly polled, the present king (George III) would be sent away tonight, and his adherents hanged tomorrow.’
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No-one denied the Stuarts had the prime hereditary claim to the Crown. But Samuel Johnson thought that was no longer a priority for the people.
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‘The state of the country is this: the people knowing on all hands that this king George has not the hereditary right to the Crown, and there being no hope that he who has it [ the Stuarts] can be restored , the people have grown cold and indifferent upon the subject of loyalty, and to have no warm attachment to any king.’
Nevertheless, if Prince Charles Edward Stuart had become Charles III from 1746, he would have been observed and advised continuously – by the British Parliament, the military, the churchmen,the John Bulls, the couthy Scots and Irish patriots. So, the Stuarts might not have made such a mess of ruling – third time lucky! But it’s not to be …
On a personal level, a successful ’45 might have made Charles’s character as well as his fortune. His personality failed to cope with failure. Would he have coped better with success? In the event, Prince Charlie was abandoned to his own worst enemy – his personal character flaws.
The Highland problem and the clans
After Culloden, the clans were demonised in the same terms used to demonise the Jacobites. The language degraded both clan and Jacobite as backward looking, superstitious, and yet still a threat. They needed ideological reorientation towards the Hanoverian state.
Charles Edward Stuart – Easty to deny at a distance, apparently
A Jacobite victory would have saved the Highlands from military occupation. Wherever the Highlands endured martial rule, and garrisoning, it created poverty, economic breakdown, hardship, rape, pillage.
A Catholic Stuart king would lift penal laws against Catholics. That might have prevented the equation of ‘Catholic’ with ‘traitor’ in British political discourse for the next century and more. Bonnie Prince Charlie seems to have been pretty indifferent to religion, although his father and brother were devout papists.
Was victory ever a possibility?
If we accept the levels of support which some historians estimate existed throughout Great Britain, and internationally in France and Italy, then I want to think it was conceivable. Just. Join me, Jackie Riding and Stuart Kelly to argue it out at The Wigtown Book Festival on Saturday 23 September at 10.30am.
Patrick Hannigan on July 18, 2018 at 7:06 pm
I do believe that in 1745 when the Scots army got to Derby they were led to believe a vast army was waiting for them just north of London. This is now known to be untrue as most of the state army contingents were busy fighting European wars on behalf of the Hanoverians.
The Scots army retreated on the advice of Prince Charles’ generals. It has been reported though… he wished to march on parliament to claim the crown.
I personally believe that if he had done this, the power politicians that ran the state would have capitulated very quickly… In fact the patronage of the politicians is not dissimilar to the ones we have today… they would… as they did in 1689 have abandoned the Hanoverians to their fate. Charles would have quickly been declared Regent… and the armies would have been recalled to Britain to claim alligence to their new ruler…
There probably would have been only slight confrontation with the Scots army… and the politicians of the day would have very quickly sort the favours of the new Stuart monarchy..
Sarah Fraser on July 19, 2018 at 10:59 am
Thank you for this, Patrick.
Did you know also that Louis XV of France sent his Master of Horse, James Butler, on a mission to London in the winter of 1743. The French were deciding whether to launch an expedition to restore the Stuarts. George II had led British armies onto mainland Europe to support Empress Maria Theresa of Austria in the War of the Austrian Succession. In the winter of 1743-44 France was deciding whether to enter the war on the opposite side. And deciding whether to use an attempted restoration of the Stuarts to divide British fire power. Butler returned with a list (a copy is now RA SP/MAIN/254/154). It identified many members of the Corporation of London, what we call The City today, as ‘Jacobite’. 190 out of the 236 they name, actually. Thinking how powerful The City is today, you can’t help wonder what they would have done, and what influence they might have had, if the Jacobites had approached London. Anyway, that’s just another of history’s “what ifs…” Sarah
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BBC Channel to move from 1N to 2E in "summer 2013"
Thread: BBC Channel to move from 1N to 2E in "summer 2013"
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According to the BBC, BBC services will move from Astra 1N satellite to Astra 2E in the second half of 2013.
"SES expects Astra 2E to launch in Q2 2013, so we currently expect to transition BBC services to it during summer 2013." - say the BBC.
So no BBC channel or reception changes until then - so much for all the rumours about loss of BBC on the 16th and 18th December!!
However, it remains to be seen what Astra 2Es reception in Spain will be like, and this may not be 100% known until operational
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I’m conscious that there is currently some speculation about the timing of forthcoming moves of BBC services between satellites and the reason for these changes. So I thought you would appreciate it if I set the record straight. The quick answer is that, as a result of SES’s fleet replacement programme, BBC services will move in the second half of 2013.
Regular readers will recall that in February 2012, SES retired Astra 2D and BBC services moved to a new temporary home on Astra 1N. Astra 1N is due to take up its permanent position in 2013 (19°East), so the BBC’s services will move to their new permanent home on Astra 2E (28.2°East) when that becomes operational. SES expects Astra 2E to launch in Q2 2013, so we currently expect to transition BBC services to it during summer 2013.
Some of you have also noticed that we commissioned a new transponder (which we call DSat8) in the autumn. It moved from its temporary home on Astra 1N to its permanent position on Astra 2F at the end of November 2012. DSat8 is still in a testing phase but in the coming months it will be used to broadcast BBC One Scotland HD and BBC One Wales HD as we complete the programme of providing all Nations programming in glorious HD. We’ll be publishing the details of DSat8 on our satellite reception advice page when the services launch.
I hope that clarifies the timings of moves and also that the moves relate to the SES fleet replacement programme, rather than any BBC strategy to change its footprint. That said, the new transponders do have a slightly different footprint, so I’ll explain a bit about that, and why the changes are no cause for concern for the BBC in our requirement to ensure that the BBC’s domestic services are readily accessible to people living in the UK.
What impact will all this have for the viewer?
In all likelihood the move of BBC services from 1N to their new permanent homes will have no impact on UK households. Astra 2E and 2F have the same, tighter but slightly more powerful UK spot beams which means that UK households should get a slightly stronger signal. So if you happened to be on the edge of coverage, you will hopefully get more reliable reception.
The overspill of the BBC’s services will be reduced so viewers outside the UK will find it even harder to receive them. I know that this causes unhappiness to some of you living outside the UK. However, it is entirely appropriate because the BBC domestic services are for people living in the UK only.
For viewers outside the UK, BBC Worldwide offers a number of channels which are available in various territories. These include BBC Entertainment, BBC Knowledge, BBC Lifestyle, CBeebies along with BBC World News throughout Europe and the rest of the world.
I hope the detail above helps you to understand a bit more about the changes coming in the second half of 2013 and the reason for them. Finally, thank you to SES for the lovely pictures of Astra 2F.
source: bbc.co.uk/blogs/aboutthebbc/posts/Changes-to-BBC-Satellite-transponders-in-2013
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One would also assume that the other ITV C4 channels on 1N would move to 2E at the same time then...
And that the changes rumoured to be happening on the 16th and 18th December is actually the transfer of some Sky channels from another satellite (astra 2B) to Astra 2F.
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State of the art repair facility in the Czech Republic was ceremonially opened today
The new technological base of the Pilsen City Transport Company was put into operation on the premises of Škoda in Pilsen today, one year earlier than expected. It is one of the largest projects from the area of partnerships between the public and private sector (PPP project - Public Private Partnerships) in the Czech Republic. The new depot will currently serve 112 buses and 86 trolleybuses.
"The depot on Cukrovarská Street, which had provided a base for cars, drivers and mechanics for 115 years, did not met the requirements for the safe parking of public transport vehicles, or for the development of technological facilities for vehicle servicing for a long time.The new repair and servicing facility enables the use of modern and ecological technologies in the area of vehicle servicing. It complies with the requirements of the 21st century and its size is designed to successfully serve public transport for at least as long as the depot on Cukrovarská Street" added Michal Kraus, chairman of the Board of Directors of PMDP.
"Building and putting the new facility into operation one year earlier than expected is a huge success for us. The construction of the depot for Pilsen buses and trolleybuses took only about two years. The new facility offers high-quality services in the area of vehicle servicing and repairs. It is one of the most modern facilities of this type used in Europe. We would like to continue with this trend of building new facilities for long-term servicing and repairs especially for our vehicles in other cities as well," said general manager of the company Škoda Transportation Josef Bernard.
"Investments of the city into the technological base for public transport companies were imperative for two reasons: first, the facility on Cukrovarská Street was approaching the end of its life and its capacity was insufficient, and secondly, we had to improve workplace conditions for our employees. On the one hand some citizens may think that the city budget will be excessively strained by the construction of the new technological facility for public transport vehicles, on the other hand it is a guarantee that public transport services will continue to be provided to citizens at high-quality levels.“ stated city mayor Martin Baxa.
"During the summer, we started the process of moving from the current unsuitable depot on Cukrovarská Street. The first vehicles moved were trolleybuses in July and then the entire bus fleet was moved a month later. As of today, the entire facility has been put into full operation. The area of the new facility is more than 116 thousand square meters, so the space it offers is much larger than the original space, not to mention the new equipment and technologies. The new modern facility is of course even ready to satisfy the new anticipated requirements arising from the further development of public transport services in Pilsen. Moreover, the facility is a part of the traditional industrial complex," added Marek Herbst, general manager of Škoda City Service.
The new transport base especially includes halls for vehicle servicing, machine washes, paint booths, storage areas, filling stations, etc. There are also roofed parking places for trolleybuses and parking lots for buses including preheating equipment for engines. An interesting part of the construction is a test track for trolleybuses, which is more than 250 meters long, and is the only roofed test track for trolleys in Europe.
Two newly built entrances, one for trolleybuses and one for buses, lead from Borská Street to the new base situated in the Škoda complex near Karlov. The places where vehicles could cross each other's path were completely eliminated. A complete technological base, training spaces, dressing rooms and sanitary facilities will be situated in the four-floor administrative building. The building will also include a dining facility and archives. Repairs will be performed by top-class experts, highly qualified employees connected with the unique know-how of the Škoda brand. The company Škoda City Service, which will perform repairs and maintenance in this facility, is a part of the strong group of companies Škoda Transportation, which is a traditional and stable employer in Pilsen.
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Japan Travel: 4 Ways to Make Your Trip a Breeze
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Ed Perkins
A nationally recognized reporter, writer, and consumer advocate, Ed Perkins focuses on how travelers can find the best deals and avoid scams.
He is the author of "Online Travel" (2000) and "Business Travel: When It's Your Money" (2004), the first step-by-step guide specifically written for small business and self-employed professional travelers. He was also the co-author of the annual "Best Travel Deals" series from Consumers Union.
Perkins' advice for business travelers is featured on MyBusinessTravel.com, a website devoted to helping small business and self-employed professional travelers find the best value for their travel dollars.
Perkins was founding editor of Consumer Reports Travel Letter, one of the country's most influential travel publications, from which he retired in 1998. He has also written for Business Traveller magazine (London).
Perkins' travel expertise has led to frequent television appearances, including ABC's "Good Morning America" and "This Week with David Brinkley," "The CBS Evening News with Dan Rather," CNN, and numerous local TV and radio stations.
Before editing Consumer Reports Travel Letter, Perkins spent 25 years in travel research and consulting with assignments ranging from national tourism development strategies to the design of computer-based tourism models.
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Japan can seem like a challenging destination for many Americans, thanks in part to its distance and the language barrier. And while you might find it unfamiliar, navigating Japan is easy if you have the right information.
Here are some quick tips for easier Japan travel, covering four of the most crucial components of your trip.
Japan Travel Tips: Arrival
Most travelers experience Japan travel beginning at Tokyo’s Narita International Airport, about 45 miles from central Tokyo. You’ll want to avoid taking a taxi into the city, as it can cost upwards of $175 USD. Luckily, there are other reliable transit options.
Two rail systems run express trips to central Tokyo. The Japan Rail Narita Express runs nonstop to Tokyo central station in about 60 minutes; most trains continue to a few other mainline Tokyo stations. The private Keisei Skyliner runs one-stop to Ueno in 45 minutes. Round-trip express fares on either line are about $35 to $40. Locals use both for connections across all of Tokyo and to other regional points. I found Skyliner to be a bit faster, and that local fares on both lines can be a lot less expensive than express fares. To minimize taxi costs, your choice should depend on which line has a station stop most convenient to your hotel.
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Express buses run to multiple destinations in central Tokyo, including some that run directly to major hotels. Bus fares are about the same as rail, but the bus takes a lot longer: 90 minutes to two hours depending on traffic. You can also find some bus trips direct to nearby tourist destinations such as Mt. Fuji or Nikko.
The Tokyo Narita Airport website posts various transportation options. Tokyo’s Haneda and Osaka’s Kansai, the other main airport gateways, are much closer to their respective city centers than Narita is.
Japan Travel Tips: Hotels
Japanese cities are full of modern, no-frills hotels for under $100 per night and within walking distance of major train stations. The rooms pack all the basic features into a tiny space.
Japanese-style Ryokan—or inns—are typically more expensive. If you want international-standard accommodations, you’ll find Hilton, Starwood, or Marriott in most major cities, as well as upscale resorts. If you’re traveling light, many hotels provide coin-operated washers and dryers for use while you’re in the hotel—a lot easier than finding a laundromat or lugging around dirty clothes on a long trip.
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Japan Travel Tips: Transportation
Most Japan travel revolves around using the country’s extensive railway system. Japan’s high-speed rail line between Tokyo and Osaka was the world’s first, and the system now extends to most major cities. High-speed Shinkansen, or bullet trains, run every 10 to 20 minutes on the busiest route: between Tokyo and Osaka. Service on other routes is fast and frequent. Opting for Japan travel on the Shinkansen means you’ll spend a lot of time in tunnels, so if you want to see the scenery, try some of the conventional trains along a coastline or through the mountains. You can easily reach some key visitor centers (notably, Mt. Fuji and Nikko) on private railways, instead.
Getting Around Japan: Transportation Tips
If you’re covering the primary Tokyo-Kyoto-Osaka-Hiroshima visitor axis, a Japan Rail Pass is probably your best bet, although it’s only available for consecutive travel days and doesn’t offer a “flexi” version that many European passes do. The Japan Rail Pass does not include travel on the limited-stop trains (Nozomi trains between Tokyo and Hakata or Mizuho trains between Osaka and Kagoshima,) but it does cover many other high-speed trains that stop just a few more times. If you’re mainly sticking around one of the big cities, local Japan Rail passes are available.
Ordinary class is acceptable for just about anybody: Shinkansen seating has reasonable legroom; slightly pricier green car (first class) seating requires reservations. Advance seat reservations are recommended for all Shinkansen trips, but most trains have limited seats available for travelers without reservations.
Japan Travel Tips: Dining
Most hotels have an in-house restaurant, but they tend to be bland and expensive. You can look up authentic restaurants with the help of TripAdvisor (SmarterTravel’s parent company), but very few restaurants display English writing on their storefront, so they can be hard to locate. Use an offline map to find spots you have in mind, or ask a staff member at your hotel for assistance.
Once inside, most restaurants can provide an English-language menu if you need it. Most restaurants accept credit cards—keep in mind there are no tipping or service charges.
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You’ll find plenty of non-Japanese restaurants, as well: Chinese is widely available, Italian is also common, and Indian is a bit less so. In Hiroshima, I spotted (but did not try) French and even German restaurants. In big cities, you’ll find multi-story buildings filled with a dozen or so restaurants in each of two to four levels.
Still, few display names in anything other than Japanese characters. You can sometimes tell what kind of restaurant it is by picture displays, but not always. One minor surprise: Over the last five years, I’ve been around much of Western Europe plus China, Dubai, and Korea, and Japan is the only place where I didn’t encounter a single pizza parlor. But of course, if you’re longing for a Big Mac, you won’t have any trouble finding one.
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Australia, US ink agreement on rare earths to tackle China's dominance
By Hamish Hastie
November 19, 2019 — 2.55pm
Australia and the US' respective geoscience agencies have inked a formal agreement on critical minerals supply in an effort to weaken China's stranglehold on rare earths essential for modern technologies.
The supply of critical minerals has been creeping up the priority list of both the US and Australian governments in recent years as they grow wary of China's control over most parts of their supply chains.
Lynas's Mount Weld mine in Western Australia, the richest known rare earths deposit in the world.
Rare earth elements are a series of metals used in modern electronics and defence equipment but much of their mining and processing occurs in China, which has in the past choked supply during periods of geopolitical tension.
On Tuesday, Federal Resources Minister Matt Canavan announced an agreement had been signed between Geoscience Australia and the United States Geological Survey, which will now assess each country’s resource potential and develop new supply.
Mr Canavan said the partnership would see Australia feed critical mineral-hungry countries such as the US.
"Growing global demand for critical minerals means there is huge scope for Australia to develop secure and stable supply chains to meet the growing demand for critical minerals in key economies such as the US," he said.
“The US has a need for critical minerals and Australia’s abundant supplies makes us a reliable and secure international supplier of a wide range of those, including rare earth elements."
The agreement follows on from an informal agreement between the agencies signed 12 months ago and will feed into the federal government's critical minerals strategy released earlier this year.
West Australian rare earth miners such as Northern Minerals and Lynas Corporation, which runs the biggest rare earths mine outside of China, joined government delegations to the US to discuss critical mineral supply.
Chamber of Minerals and Energy WA chief executive Paul Everingham said the agreement could underpin the next wave of WA’s resources sector development.
“This partnership has the potential to lead to the development of new rare earths mines in Western Australia and further trade between the two countries,” he said.
“It recognises that Australia, the US, and much of the western world, does not have reliable supplies of the key minerals used in the technologies that are likely to shape our world over the coming decades."
Association of Mining and Exploration Companies chief executive Warren Pearce said the agreement would unlock greater geological knowledge of the two countries.
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Codeine poisonings halve at Brisbane hospital
By Lucy Stone
November 25, 2019 — 1.01am
Codeine-related overdoses have more than halved at one of Brisbane's busiest hospitals since the drug was made prescription-only in February last year.
Before then, drugs containing less than 30 milligrams of codeine did not require a prescription, but responding to a spike in the number of poisonings, the Therapeutic Goods Administration added all codeine-containing drugs to the prescription-only register.
From last year, drugs containing less than 30mg of codeine could only be dispensed with a prescription. Credit:Dion Georgopoulos
New research by the Princess Alexandra Hospital in Brisbane's southside on the number of poisonings presented there shows that in the 12 months before the ban, the hospital's toxicology unit saw 163 presentations for codeine poisoning. This compared with just 77 in the 12 months after the ban – a 53 per cent decrease.
The findings were published on Monday in the Medical Journal of Australia by lead author and Princess Alexandra Hospital toxicology specialist Dr Keith Harris and co-authors Andrew Jiang, Robert Knoeckel and Katherine Isoardi.
"The decline in codeine-related presentations was not associated with a rise in alternative opioid-related presentations," the authors wrote.
This was despite an overall rise of 13 per cent in the number of presentations to the PA for poisonings since the change, from 2235 to 2516.
"Our study was limited by its single centre, retrospective design. Patients may have presented to other hospitals after codeine was rescheduled, but the total number of poisoning presentations to our unit was higher during the period after rescheduling," the authors wrote.
About 90 per cent of the patients presenting to the hospital with poisoning during both periods, before and after the ban, were for paracetamol co-formulations.
Lucy is the urban affairs reporter for the Brisbane Times, with a special interest in Brisbane City Council.
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Before we get into #QAnon, start here: The Four Horsemen! Devin Nunes, Trey Gowdy, Mark Meadows, and Jim Jordan! That’s a great nickname, Schifty! I’m stealin’ it!
There is so much here. Let’s start with the link itself:
Before we get into #QAnon, start here:
The Four Horsemen! Devin Nunes, Trey Gowdy, Mark Meadows, and Jim Jordan! That’s a great nickname, Schifty! I’m stealin’ it!
Nunes, in a letter to the chairmen of both committees obtained by Breitbart News, listed ten current and former U.S. officialswho may have received or provided information relevant to their investigation….
Interviews with those officials could reveal whether the FBI lied when it said it began investigating the Trump campaign on July 31, 2016, after it received information from Downer after stolen Democratic National Committee emails were published on July 22, 2016…
Normally, intelligence passed on from a member of the “Five Eyes” alliance — Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the U.K., and the U.S. — to another member comes through an official channel for intelligence sharing.
However, Nunes, upon reviewing the document that formally launched the FBI’s investigation, said there was no intelligence shared through that official channel, meaning that the intelligence was shared through unofficial means.
Emphasis added here by me.
Nunes’s letter also lists State Department officials in Washington, who have admitted to receiving information from ex-British spy Christopher Steele…
Those officials are Jonathan Winer and Victoria Nuland…
Nunes’s letter also lists Colin Kahl, former national security adviser to former Vice President Joe Biden, another former Biden aide… as well as former top Clinton State Department aide and campaign official Jake Sullivan.
Go read the whole thing. I’m only giving you basic highlights here because of copyright and such.
Anon gives us a quick Q-review, so we can easily re_read all in one go:
But he missed a few, so here are the others:
So what I think you’re going to see in the testimony that follows from all this, is the revelation of what these “unofficial channels” were; specifically who they involved. I believe Q is saying the UK was the primary point of contact for those looking to ferry information along these unofficial channels, and this will implicate the FBI, the DOJ, the CIA, and Obama’s White House.
Rosenstein’s deadline is Thursday.
And how is that for a #Boom?
“We have the server.”
Q liked that line, too.
But in all seriousness, Q is emphasizing the “official” vs “unofficial” channels here for a reason. Unofficial channels implicate Obama (and, by proxy, HRC – and I imagine, many of the 13 Angry Democrats, if not all of them)!
Here’s that image if you need it a bit bigger:
If you’ve been following Q for a few months, you have to remember this.
If the bad guys went through US agencies, there would be a “paper” trail.
Because they’re going through #FiveEyes, they can read whatever is procured without a paper trail, and take that intel with them.
The reason Qteam allowed this was to follow them and gather more evidence of crimes.
Like when HRC was allowed to go to New Zealand. She wasn’t getting away with anything. Her phone was comped the whole time, and they probably had agents tailing her everywhere, and satellites trained on her every move. She thought she was turning the tables. In fact, she was just adding fuel to the fire.
Here’s that post again:
The corruption goes all the way to the top!
Stormy’s old news! It’s not sticking any more, so the tactic is to shift gears towards Michael Cohen. And look at how all the Mockingbirds fall in line!
Thursday can’t come soon enough!
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The Lion City’s Glorious Past
via Archaeology (magazine), 16 October 2017:
That history has now been revised, and the textbooks amended. Largely due to archaeological excavations that began in 1984 and culminated in the island’s largest-ever dig, in 2015, evidence now exists of a fourteenth-century port city that had long been buried under downtown Singapore. Led by American archaeologist John Miksic and more recently by Singaporean archaeologist Lim Chen Sian, a researcher with the Nalanda-Sriwijaya Centre Archaeology Unit at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, these rescue digs were driven by small private donations and passionate volunteers. Through fragments of earthenware, Chinese pottery, Indian beads, and Javanese jewelry, Miksic and others have pieced together a new story—one that pushes the city’s origins back some 500 years before Raffles’ arrival, traces the rise and fall of Singapore between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries, and places it in the robust ancient maritime trade network of the region.
Source: The Lion City’s Glorious Past – Archaeology Magazine
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Hun Sen defends heritage site evictions
via Khmer Times, 05 December 2018: Cambodian Prime Minister speaking about recent evictions and demolishing of buildings in the Angkor Archaeological Park.
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen. via Khmer Times, 20181205
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday defended the government’s stance on the eviction of people illegally living in heritage sites.
The statement was made during the 25th anniversary of the International Coordinating Committee for the Safeguarding and Development of the Heritage Site of Angkor in Siem Reap province.
Mr Hun Sen said the government’s stance on heritage site encroachment is often taken advantage of by political parties who accuse it of violating human rights.
“Political parties always use land protestors when there’s an upcoming election,” Mr Hun Sen said. “If we allow people to encroach on land located in heritage sites, our temples will lose quality and will no longer be world heritage sites.”
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Ben & Jerry’s Has A New Netflix-Themed Ice Cream Flavor
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Just when we thought Ben & Jerry’s couldn’t get any better, they exceeded all of our expectations. Because now, they’re releasing cereal flavored-ice cream and the nostalgia factor is making our mouths water at the very thought. Plus, you know, it’s difficult-to-impossible to find any Ben & Jerry’s ice cream that isn’t delicious.
Called Cereal Splashbacks, the collection will feature three new flavors. There’s Froot Loot, which tastes like Fruity Pebbles; Frozen Flakes, an ode to Frosted Flakes, duh; and Cocoa Loco, the colder, creamier sibling of Cocoa Pebbles.
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Uh, yum. And obviously, B & J know we all want to go back in time to our childhood for a bit.
Is it breakfast? Is it dessert? Is it all a dream? . Whatever you want to call it, we have 3 NEW cereal milk flavors, only at Ben & Jerry's scoop shops. Launching in the US – check the link in our bio for more info.
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“We wanted to take our flavor concepts and make people feel like a kid again, which is how we landed with our Cereal Splashback flavors,” Eric Fredette, Ben & Jerry’s Flavor Guru, said in a statement. “There’s a flavor for every fan that will help bring them back to the prize-at-the-bottom-of-the-box days, watching Saturday morning cartoons in pajamas.”
Everyone knows that the sugary-sweet milk at the bottom of the cereal bowl is the best part, and that’s not news to ice cream makers. Pastry wizard Christina Tosi of Momofuku’s Milk Bar has been cranking out cereal milk soft serve for years (and yes, it really does taste like cornflakes or frosted flakes—and it’s amazing).
RELATED: Ben & Jerry’s Releases Pint Slices Chocolate-Covered Ice Cream
But unfortunately, the new Ben & Jerry’s cereal line will only be available at Ben & Jerry’s Scoop Shops. This means you won’t be able to snag a pint… or five… at the grocery store, which is either a bad thing for your sweet tooth or a good thing for your waistline.
Ben & Jerry’s have already had a very exciting 2017 what with releasing three new flavors in January, chocolate-covered “Pint Slices” in February AND three new vegan flavors. We can’t wait to see what they’ll scoop up next.
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Leatherman Tread Wins 2015 ‘Best of What’s New’ Award
The wearable, travel-friendly multi-tool was chosen by Popular Science Magazine as one of the top 100 tech innovations of the year
Portland, OR—November 19, 2015— Leatherman Tool Group Inc., the world’s largest manufacturer of high quality multi-tools and inventor of the multi-tool category, is pleased to announce that the Leatherman Tread has received a 2015 “Best of What’s New” Award from Popular Science Magazine. The Tread was a winner in the Home Category, with the magazine citing the innovative design of the world’s first wearable multi-tool that “you’d never need to leave at home – or even in a toolbox.”
“The Best of What’s New awards honor the innovations that surprise and amaze us—those that challenge our view of what’s possible in the future,” said Cliff Ransom, Editor-in-Chief of Popular Science. “The award is Popular Science’s top prize, and the 100 winners—chosen from among thousands of nominees—are each a revolution in their respective fields.”
The Leatherman Tread is crafted of high strength, corrosion resistant 17-4 stainless steel links that include two to three functional tools each, making a total of 29 usable features like box wrenches, screwdrivers and a SIM Card punch available at a moment’s notice. Created to be fully customizable with slotted fasteners, Tread users can rearrange links, add new ones, or adjust for wrist size to ¼”. The Tread is available in stainless steel and DLC (diamond like coating) black finish. MSRP is $165.00 and $220.00 USD, respectively.
“The idea behind Tread originated on a trip to Disneyland with my family,” said Ben Rivera, president of Leatherman Tool Group. “I was stopped at the gate by security for carrying what they thought was a knife, when what they had actually seen was my Leatherman Skeletool. I knew there had to be another way to carry my tools with me that would be accepted by security. When I returned home I began to craft a wearable, customizable multi-tool – which eventually became the Tread. We are so thankful to be recognized by Popular Science for this innovation from Leatherman.”
Each year, the editors of Popular Science review thousands of products in search of the top 100 tech innovations of the year—breakthrough products and technologies that represent a significant leap in their categories: Automotive, Aviation, Computing, Engineering, Gadgets, Green, Entertainment, Security, Software, Home, Health and Recreation.
About Leatherman Tool Group, Inc.
Founded in 1983 by Tim Leatherman, Oregon-based Leatherman Tool Group is the world’s largest manufacturer of high quality multi-tools (Leatherman) and LED lights (LED LENSER), with more than 128 million tools and lights sold, and distribution in more than 80 countries. For more information visit www.leatherman.com, www.ledlenser.com, or find us on Facebook at /leathermanusa and /ledlenserusa.
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By Lionel Kakai from Old Farm Road, (NZ)
Monday, 17 November 2008 11:35 AM
Thanks for those who shared their views on the this subject. I tend to think that this question is a global question. Well, after all Honiara is just a part of the globe (world). Though there are distinct absolute temperatures at one particular time, place, latitude and altitude, there are average trends of anomalous temperatures across the global regions. Yes, whether these average unusal temperatures are directly or indirectly affected by natural or anthropogenic causes are significant but more importantly, how do we address the facts in life that we experience now in Honiara?
Just recently, out of interest I attended a presentation on issues pertaining to the current food crisis by a human rights lawyer from the UN here at Waikato Uni. She said that the chief cause out of 4 main factors causing the current food crisis is 'climate change' which is also associated with small temperature changes. That is, food production is low because of frequent natural disasters etc. However, she said that one of the many solutions to such effects is for national governments to frame policies that will help people to be aware and practice safer, sustainable and environmentally friendly activities. For example, encourage more small scale subsistance agricultural activites, such as gardening in small plots of land using less sophisticated machinery etc.
Moreover, I wasn't aware until I heard during the first and the latest melanesian symposium in Wellington that Solomon Islands is one of the few pacific countries that don't have legislations, acts or policies that addresses issues concerning climate change, (I may be wrong).
Finally, Is Honiara heating up? Well, whether we use scientifc instrument or just using our body senses to measure, I suppose the fact is that the natural, social, technological, political and economical environment are not the same any more. Honiara is just a surburb in a global village and obviously we are feeling the trickling effect of global crises. How do we as a country and people respond in reaction more so proactively to address such issues as climate change. We maybe too small in contributing to the global efforts but let us find ways that will encourage our people participate more in building their viable niches in this 21st century amongst the various global crises.
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Glastonbury Festival 2019 line-up rumours: Both Liam and Noel Gallagher set to perform at Glasto - reports suggest
Liam is set for a starring role on the Pyramid Stage, according to reports
Both Liam and Noel Gallagher will perform at the festival separately, The Daily Star claims
Liam Gallagher is set to be a sub-headliner on the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury Festival 2019, according to reports.
The Brit-pop icon will be the "second to last on the main stage just before headliner Stormzy" on the Friday of the event, The Daily Star is claiming.
The national newspaper also claims that both Liam and Noel Gallagher are set to perform at the festival separately, as they did in 2017.
Liam Gallagher could be stepping out onto the Pyramid Stage, according to reports
Liam Gallagher performed on the Other Stage at the last Glastonbury Festival, while Noel appeared for a more low-key Q&A at the small William's Green tent, where he led the audience in a sing-along to Don't Look Back in Anger .
The Daily Star claims that an "insider" has leaked the news that the pair will appear again in 2019, with less than six months until the festival gates open.
According to The Daily Star, an insider said: "Liam will be second to last act on the Main Stage Friday night, just before headliner Stormzy.
"He should keep all the old indie heads happy with some big songs."
The Daily Star claims Noel Gallagher will perform on the Saturday of the festival, the day after his brother
The newspaper also claims that Noel is set to play on the Saturday of the festival, the day after his brother.
The festival has not officially confirmed the appearance of either Noel or Liam.
Glastonbury Festival takes place between June 26 and June 30, and the only acts confirmed by the festival so far are Stormzy, Kylie Minogue, and Janelle Monae.
Reports suggest Liam Gallagher will sub-headline the Pyramid Stage, performing before Stormzy
Stormzy fires back at critics
Stormzy has fired back at critics of his elevation to Glastonbury Festival headliner, and has vowed to wow the Pyramid Stage crowd.
With only one album to his name, the South London grime artist has said he has "mad underdog syndrome" ahead of his headline performance on the Friday of the festival.
However, he feels he is meant to headline Glastonbury and has the confidence to deliver a fitting performance, after a highly successful Other Stage show in 2017 described by festival organiser Emily Eavis as "phenomenal'.
Stormzy stormed Glastonbury in 2017
"I can't wait. I've got mad underdog syndrome, but I got confidence, too," he said, speaking to Elle Magazine.
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The Sound of Transistors
J. Gordon Holt | Apr 2, 2006 | First Published: May 2, 1965
Editor's Note: Those of us who cut our engineering teeth on tubes still remember the advent of the solid-state amplifier with mixed feelings. Yes, they were lighter and cheaper per watt than the thermionic hulks we loved so much, but they broke all the time (thanks to the germanium transistor) and sounded like—well, let J. Gordon Holt tell us what they sounded like in an "As We See It" article from Vol.1 No.10, first published in May 1965. We also develop the theme with a JGH review of an early transistorized amp, as well as a selection of readers' letters from the early days of Stereophile. Enjoy.—John Atkinson
Ever since the first solid-state high-fidelity component (a Fisher phono preamp) made its appearance ca 1957, we've been hearing more and more about some wondrous phenomenon called "the transistor sound"—a quality of sharpness and crispness that, allegedly, makes tube components sound muddy by comparison. We've been auditioning a number of transistorized components recently, and while we are now fully prepared to assure skeptics that there is indeed such a thing as "transistor sound," we are equally prepared to state that it ain't as hi-fi as it's cracked up to be.
A typical transistor amplifier will make any loudspeaker sound crisper, as though its transient response has been improved, but it is not the same kind of "crispness" we can get from a tube amplifier by just cranking up the treble. In a tube amplifier, treble boost will increase the "harshness" of disc distortion. The typical transistor amp, on the other hand, does not seem to exaggerate "hash" as much as average tube equipment does, so the sound is often as clean or cleaner, despite the increased crispness.
Prolonged listening, however, brings a gradual realization that all program material has this razor-sharp clarity, including recordings that we know don't go much beyond 9 kc [kHz] at the high end. And when the same transistor amp feeds a speaker that has inherently excellent transient response, the crispness is just too much to endure. Highs come through with subtle "whiskers" of high-frequency impulses riding on them—impulses that are not heard either in live music or in the best tube or transistor equipment.
This is why we've been stressing "average" transistor equipment, for the better the transistor amplifier—that is, the lower its measured distortion—the more it comes to sound like a top-grade tube amplifier, and the better it sounds on a top-grade speaker system.
Unlike tube amplifiers, transistorized power amps generally yield their lowest distortion at output levels just below the overload point. This is because, in their output stages, the signal is "switched" back and forth between the two halves of the output circuit with every half-cycle of the signal, and this "switching" is not always perfectly smooth. As a result, a "kink" is introduced into the waveform at the switchover point, and the size of this kink remains constant regardless of how much power the amplifier is delivering. At high power levels, where the signal is much stronger than the "kink" content, the distortion added by the "kink" is but a small percentage of the total output. At reduced output levels, the signal amplitude goes down while the "kink" energy stays put, so the percentage of total distortion rises.
The presence of this "kink" probably accounts for most of the "transistor sound" in current-model amplifiers, because the less of it there is in a given design, the less "transistor sound" it will have. It isn't the whole story, though, for we've heard "transistor sound" from equipment that didn't employ any switching circuits—transistor preamps, for instance—but again, whenever the unit's measured distortion at low output levels was reduced to the vanishing point, it started to sound very much like a topnotch tube component. So that, in a nutshell, is the much-touted "transistor sound." It is distortion.
Comparing the very best tube and transistor components, we did not find either type to have any clear cut advantage. The overall sound from the tube components was felt to be a shade more pleasant to the ear, but this advantage may be lost when designers learn how to reduce transistor distortion even more. Tube and transistor preamps had almost identical bass sound, but the lack of the output transformer (and the much higher damping factor) gave the transistorized power amps slightly tighter, cleaner bass. This difference was particularly noticeable on speaker systems which are highly sensitive to amplifier damping (the AR-3, for example), and in their case it could truthfully be said that the transistor amps had it all over the tube types.
Again, though, this was evidently due to the transistor's inherently high damping factor, rather than to any essential difference between the characteristic sound of transistors and tubes. Undoubtedly, transistor design techniques will be improved, and most transistor components are already capable of giving better sound than most tube components, particularly in the very-low-power (10 watts and less) class, where transistors simply run rings around their typically miserable-quality tube competition. But there are some moderate-priced tube components that are better than the best of their transistorized competitors (some Dynakits, for instance), so just because something is "solid-state," this doesn't necessarily mean it's better than any tube component. It may not be as good.
The topnotch transistor units—the Acoustechs and Citations for example—are another matter altogether. They are almost totally free from the "transistor sound," which means their distortion, and their overall sound, can be comparable to that of the best tube types. In time, we hope their prices will be comparable, too.—J. Gordon Holt
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Top prep performances of the week
Schroeder, Drohner, Bancker and Gollon named top preps for the week
Top prep performances of the week Schroeder, Drohner, Bancker and Gollon named top preps for the week Check out this story on stevenspointjournal.com: http://spjour.nl/1bQSqRS
Scott A. Williams, USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Published 8:01 p.m. CT May 13, 2015
Nicole Schroeder(Photo: contributed)
NICOLE SCHROEDER
The Cardinals entered the week ranked No. 1 in the most recent Wisconsin Fastpitch Softball Coaches Association and a lethal batting order is one reason they sit atop the poll. Any of a number of players could have received the nod during a 5-0 week for Pacelli, but Schroeder edged out the competition on the strength of a 9-for-10 streak at the plate in wins over Amherst, Thorp and Wittenberg-Birnamwood.
AUBREY DROHNER
Aubrey Drohner (Photo: contributed)
There is no question her performance on the diamond was deserving of some recognition this week. The only question is whether Drohner was more effective in the circle or at the plate. In three pitching starts, Drohner didn't allow any runs in wins over Marshfield, No. 1 La Crosse Logan (Division 2) and No. 6 Weyauwega-Fremont (Division 3) while surrendering just nine combined hits and striking out 22 in 21 innings. Drohner also went 4-for-8 with a home run and two RBI at the plate.
BLAINE BANCKER
Blaine Bancker (Photo: contributed)
After sitting behind standout Bradley Luetschwager in the No. 2 singles position the past three years, Bancker has been been making a name for himself in the top singles position this spring. Bancker has dropped just one match in the Wisconsin Valley Conference entering a showdown with unbeaten Sean Bailey of Wausau West today. Bancker posted a 6-0, 6-1 win over D.C. Everest's Meng Yang on Thursday to help the Panthers to a 7-0 dual meet victory. Bancker owns a 13-7 record as he adjusts to a new role this season.
JAMES GOLLON
James Gollon (Photo: Dan Young/Daily Herald Media)
Thursday will a day to remember for the Cardinals' scoring machine. After committing to Division I Ohio University on Feb. 15, Gollon makes it official when he will sign a national letter of intent with the Bobcats at the school Thursday morning. Gollon is coming off a season in which he finished second in the state in scoring with an average of 30.7 point per game. Coming off a hip injury prior to his junior season, Gollon returned to 100 percent prior to this season and his scoring talents shown through as he lit up scoreboards throughout central Wisconsin on the way to being named the Gannett Central Wisconsin Boys Player of the Year.
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At the graduate level, St. John's offers federal student loans. If you are a U.S. citizen or permanent resident, you may apply by completing a Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), which is available at our Office of Financial Aid:
Queens/Manhattan Campus
8000 Utopia Pkwy.
Staten Island Campus
Check our Financial Aid Web site or e-mail [email protected]. In addition, each department offers various assistantships (for master's degree students) and fellowships (for doctoral students).
Does St. John's offer assistantships and/or fellowships?
St. John's offers assistantships (for master's degree students) and fellowships (for doctoral degree students). Under an assistantship, St. John's pays a student's tuition and provides a small stipend in exchange for 15 to 20 hours a week of work for an individual department. Students with assistantships in the humanities work as research assistants, while those with assistantships in the sciences work as teaching assistants. Fellowships are geared specifically toward students in doctoralprograms, who receive full tuition without having to provide any work hours per week.
How do I apply for an assistantship (for master's degree students) or fellowship (for doctoral degree students)?
First, an applicant must fill out the Graduate Assistantship/Fellowship Application included in the St. John's application. Candidates for assistantships/fellowships must be applicants for full-time graduate study at St. John's. The student may not work a full-time job while serving as a Graduate Assistant/Fellow. GRE exam scores may be required, depending upon the program of study. If a department or program does not require GRE scores, then they will not be required for consideration for an assistantship within that department or program.
The GMAT is required for applications to The Tobin College of Business (with the exception of the MS in Management of Risk for which the GRE general exam will be accepted).
How do I check the status of my assistantship application?
If you have questions concerning assistantships, or would like to know the status of your assistantship application, please contact the dean or director of your intended academic program.
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How can I receive assistance in the application process?
St. John's offers personal, one-on-one interviews with a graduate counselor to discuss the necessary steps needed to apply to our varied graduate programs.
For St. John's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the College of Pharmacy, and the College of Professional Studies, call the Office of Graduate Admission at 718-990-1601, or e-mail a counselor at [email protected].
For additional information, call our Office of Graduate Admission at 718-990-2304 or email [email protected].
For The Peter J. Tobin College of Business, contact 718-990-1345 or [email protected].
For the School of Education, contact [email protected]
Is there graduate housing available at St. John's?
Yes, please visit our Graduate Housing page for more information.
Do I need a bachelor's degree in the specific field in which I wish to pursue a master's degree?
You must possess a baccalaureate degree of some type before entering graduate school at St. John's University. Check our online Graduate Bulletin for specific program information.
In most cases, your bachelor's degree does not have to be in the particular field to which you are applying. However, you do need a sufficient number of undergraduate credits in that field. For most programs, 18-21 undergraduate credits in the field are required to be considered for a specific graduate program.
What should I do if I do not have 18-21 credits in the specific field in which I want to pursue a master's degree?
If you do not fulfill the 18-21 undergraduate credit requirement, you may have to take the appropriate number of undergraduate courses at an accredited institution before applying to St. John's graduate programs. Most universities/colleges will allow you to take courses on an undergraduate level without moving toward a degree.
Where do I send my supporting documentation for admission?
Graduate Admission Processing Service Center
Randolph, MA 02368-0811
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Italian Cultural Center
The Italian Cultural Center, established at St. John's in 1992, conducts various educational and cultural activities that increase the awareness of Italian-Americans of their heritage, and strives to foster a greater appreciation of the significant contributions of Italians to American culture. With pride, the Center seeks to preserve, communicate, and celebrate Italian and Italian-American culture, values, and heritage while supporting the mission of the University.
Additionally the Center strives to:
promote Italy, its language, literature and culture
inform the community of Italy's contribution to architecture, art, music, literature, medicine, mathematics, philosophy,theology, science, law and every field of human endeavor
present cultural events, such as concerts, operas, plays and exhibits; enhance opportunities for the study of the Italian language, literature and culture
enlarge the St. John's library collection of publications covering the contribution of Italy and the Italian-American experience
create exhibits for Italian art and artifacts; present workshops in art, music and theater
and provide scholarships to students for study in Italy.
Cav. Uff. Joseph Sciame, Advisory Board Chair
The Office of Community Relations
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Cav. Uff. Joseph Sciame, Chair
Theresa Cantarella
Professor Joan M. D'Andrea
Dawn Esposito, Ph. D.
Professor Caroline Gozzer Fuchs
Hon. Joseph Golia
MaryAnn Mattone
Cav. Joseph M. Mattone, Esq.
Lina Merlino, M.D., F.A.A.P.
Paul Patane, Ph.D.
Florence Russo, Ph.D
Teresa A. Trimarco, Ph.D.
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Italian Government
Italian Ministry of Culture
Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Italian Parliament
Italian Presidency
Italian Cultural Institute
Embassy of Italy in the United States
3000 Whitehaven Street, NW
Permanent Mission of Italy to the UN
2 UN Plaza, 24th Floor
Italy-American Chamber of Commerce
730 Fifth Avenue, Suite 600
Italian Cultural Institute (Washington)
1717 Massachusetts Ave., NW, Suite 104
Italian Tourism Board / ENIT
Italian Cultural Institute, San Francisco
Phone (415) 788-7142/3/4, (415) 788-6210
Italian Trade Commission
Italian American Organizations
American Italian Historical Association
Arba Sicula
Center for Migration Studies
Fieri - The International Organization of Students & Young Professionals Celebrating Italian Culture
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute
The National Italian American Foundation
National Organization of Italian American Women
Order Sons of Italy in America
Ricerca Scientifica e Technologica
ENEA - Ente per le nuove tecnologie, L'energia e L'ambiente
Italian Physical Society (IPS)
Museum Online
ICC Scholarship application
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Girls Learning About Motivation (G.L.A.M.)
Girls Learning About Motivation Club
Coordinator: Ms. Paguaga
Date/Time: Fourth Thursday of each month.
Eligible grades: 6 – 8
Location: St. Lawrence School Campus
Fee: $10 for the duration of the school year. (The school may disallow participation in or access to school activities if any financial obligations are not met. Pg. 47 Parent-Student Handbook.)
The purpose of this club is to help build and promote self-esteem to female students in middle school.
The mission of this club is to positively impact our female students through various meaningful activities that advocate respect toward peers and respect toward themselves. This club promotes the mission of No Place for Hate, as it teaches students tolerance, love, and acceptance.
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The website of St Mary's Parish Church of Ewell in Surrey.
Giving to St Mary’s
Fun Day Wednesdays
Toddle Up!
Praise@11
Children’s Hour
Family Flix
Brownies and Guides
Bell-ringing
Ewell Parish News
Growing as a Christian
The Wider Church
Cafe NESCOT
Wednesday Coffee Morning
Ewell Village Fair
Bereavement Café
Concerts and Recitals
St Mary’s Singers
The Father Willis Organ
Worship & Services
Sunday & Weekday Services
Funerals and Churchyard
Recordings of Sermons
Tower Captain: Jeff Cousins 020 8394 0572
Affiliated to The Surrey Association of Church Bell Ringers and the Guildford Diocesan Guild (Leatherhead District).
Sunday Service Ringing: 9.00 – 9.30 am & 5.45 – 6.30 pm (Evening varies)
Practice: Tuesday 7.30 – 9.30 pm
It is certain that St Mary’s possessed bells, five in number, prior to the year 1548 when they are mentioned in an inventory of the Church’s possessions. These five bells hung in the Old Church, of which the tower is the only part still remaining.
In 1767 they were removed, taken to Whitechapel Bell Foundry, and recast into a ring of six with a total weight of 2 tons 11? cwt. Three of the six remain today in the existing ring of eight. One of the six had to be recast in 1830 due to the fact that it had become cracked. The six were transferred to the new church in 1848 and re-hung in the old frame with the old fittings.
By 1889, due to neglect and maltreatment, the bells and fittings were in a very bad state, two of the bells being cracked and a third seriously damaged. An estimate of the cost for setting the bells in order at that time was £114 – additional estimates for a new frame (£73) and two more treble bells (£83) made a total of £270. An appeal was launched on 28th December 1889. The work was completed in 1890, and the eventual bill was for £301-14s-4d. The first peal on the restored bells was rung on 26th December 1892, and took 2 hours 52 minutes.
Over the next 70 or so years the only major work was in 1935 when all the bells were re-hung on ball bearings by Gillett and Johnson of Croydon.
The bells were now eight in number, in the key of F sharp. At this stage the Tenor (the largest) weighed 14 cwt, and the smallest (Treble) 4? cwt. The total weight of all the bells was 3 tons 3cwt and 3 lbs. Each bell has an inscription showing who cast it; some show the date and the name of the Vicar and Churchwardens at the time. The inscriptions date from 1767.
Due to an unfavourable report on the bells in 1966, quotes for repair were obtained the following May saw the launch of an appeal as the Bells were once more in need of major overhaul, and the estimate of £2074 plus additional builders’ and carpenters’ work was received from the Whitechapel Foundry. The work required was:-
Dismantling the bells fittings and frame
Removal to Whitechapel for tuning by modern principles
Erection of a new cast iron frame which will not only carry the bells but will also strengthen the tower
Re-hanging the bells with new fittings and ropes and with repaired clappers
In 1969 Whitechapel Bell Foundry Ltd. was called in to put the bells once more in full working order, at an estimated cost of £2500. The main work was not on the bells themselves, but on the frame, the old oak bell frame being replaced by a new iron one to rest on new steel girders firmly grouted into the tower walls. The bells were removed in July 1970 and re-installed at Christmas 1970, after five months of silence.” The tenor is now only 12? cwts and the treble 4 cwts, total weight 2 tons 16? cwt.
A serious fire in the church in 1973 fortunately did little damage to the tower and ringing was only temporarily suspended for a few weeks.
The first full peal (minimum 5000 changes) on the bells was rung on 26 December 1892. The peal board commemorates the event. Exactly 100 years later to the day, the same composition was rung to mark the anniversary and another peal board marks the occasion. This peal was, by coincidence, the 200th peal on the bells.
Tower Details
The tower is built of brick with stone facing externally. It is about fourteen feet square internally, and some sixty feet high from ground level. There is a flat roof with decorative pinnacles at each corner. Access to the bells is via a staircase to the ringing chamber, with a steep staircase from there to the very low intermediate sound chamber added directly under the bells during the 1970 re-hanging. The frame is of cast iron on steel joists, and the whole installation has been generally trouble-free in the thirty years since. The provision of striking adjusters in the steel headstocks has proved to be very useful.
The clock is housed in the ringing chamber, and dates from 1799. Winding is by electric motors for chiming, striking and going, which replace the original hand-cranked mechanisms. When working, the chimes for the quarters would be struck on the two, three, four and seven, with the hours being struck on the tenor. There is no Ellacombe or similar chiming apparatus.
(cwt.qtrs.lbs)
2′ 2″
MEARS & STAINBANK WHITECHAPEL FOUNDRY LONDON
REV. JOHN THORNTON VICAR. JOHN H. BRIDGES, GEO. WOOD CHURCHWARDENS
ADDED 1890 TO COMPLETE THE OCTAVE
2′ 3?”
Same as the above
AT PROPER TIMES MY VOICE I WILL RAISE AND SOUND TO MY BENEFACTORS PRAISE
LESTER & PACK LONDON FECIT 1767
LESTER & PACK LONDON FECIT
OUR VOICES SHALL WITH JOYFUL SOUND MAKE HILLS AND VALLEYS ECHO ROUND
LESTER & PACK OF LONDON FECIT 1767
2′ 10?”
T MEARS OF LONDON FECIT 1830
ALEX. BAILIE VICAR
JAMES ANDREW, EDWD. NEALE CHURCH WARDENS
“TO HONOUR BOTH OF GOD AND KING OUR VOICES SHALL IN CONSORT RING”
RECAST 1890
THE REV. JOHN THORNTON M.A. VICAR
JOHN H. BRIDGES A.C. FUGGLE CHURCHWARDENS
The original inscription on the seventh bell was retained when it was recast but not that on the tenor. This previously read:
THE REVD JAS HALLIFAX DD VICAR OF EWELL
Wm JUBB & JNo STENT CH WARDENS
H KITCHEN JUNR & J ALLINGHAM OVERSEERS
It should be noted that one of the churchwardens changed between the casting of the new trebles and the recasting of the tenor in 1890 suggesting that they were done at different times.
Do you have some spare time you would like to fill up with a new experience? Have you recently retired or are you about to retire? Have you finished your exams at school and are looking for a new challenge? Perhaps you are housewife who would like to get out a bit more, meet some new people and try something different.
Why not give bell-ringing a try? Bell-ringing has nothing to do with strength or brute force. It is an art which requires a combination of listening, seeing and physical co-ordination. You will, I can promise, get an enormous amount of satisfaction when you have first managed to pull and properly control a bell. The next step, when you start into the mysteries of “change ringing” requires a certain amount a certain amount of mental dexterity but that comes a little later.
Bell-ringing, as we know it, started in England in the middle of the 17th Century. To continue this long tradition we obviously have to look for and welcome new recruits when- ever and wherever we can. At St. Mary’s, several who joined for the Millennium ringing have stayed to become very useful members of the band (that is what we call a team of ringers). Ringing is essentially a team business and as such, you will find it a very sociable activity.
So, if you want to make new friends, if you want to do something useful in the service of St Mary’s and you would like to give it a try, why not make one of your New Year Resolutions to GIVE IT A GO.
Just come up to the belfry one Tuesday evening at 7.30pm or contact our Tower Captain.
St Mary's takes its responsibilities for safeguarding, and health & safety, very seriously. Our safeguarding policy for children and vulnerable adults can be read here.
St Mary’s Ewell is registered as a charity under the name of THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF EWELL
Registered Charity No 1128409. View policies including safeguarding and data privacy notices
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Exploring Medical Language , 10th Edition
By Myrna LaFleur Brooks, RN, BEd and Danielle LaFleur Brooks, MEd, MA
Systematic presentation of medical terminology provides a foundation of word parts (prefixes, suffixes, and word roots), then builds words by combining the parts.
Comprehensive coverage of words that are built from word parts and other important terms creates a distinction between terms built from word parts and those not easily recognized as built from word parts and provides thorough coverage of both.
Over 400 flashcards enable readers to review word parts when and where they want.
Margin boxes detail important information such as medical terminology facts and tips, historical information, weblinks, and complementary and alternative medicine terms.
Simulations of electronic health records familiarize readers with the growing use of EHRs in healthcare settings.
AudioTerms study companion can be easily downloaded to portable media players and includes over 3,000 terms, each of which is pronounced and defined.
Integrated online learning tools feature interactive games and activities, A+P boosters, career videos, and more that cater to the way today's learners master medical terminology.
With Exploring Medical Language, 10th Edition, you can now master medical terms on your terms! At the heart of this one-of-a-kind learning package is an innovative worktext, which enables you to gradually acquire an understanding of medical terminology by first learning word parts and then learning how to combine the parts into full medical terms that make sense. Perhaps even better is the wide range of engaging online learning tools - tools like interactive games, puzzles, application activities, and on-the-go auditory reviews - that come with the worktext to help reinforce your learning and help you understand how the terms are used in the professional world. In all, this is the only resource on the market that incorporates all the proven methods for mastering medical terminology that work best for today's learners.
By Myrna LaFleur Brooks, RN, BEd, Founding President of the National Association of Health Unit Clerks/Coordinators, Faculty Emeritus, Maricopa County Community College District, Phoenix, AZ and Danielle LaFleur Brooks, MEd, MA, Faculty, Medical Assisting and Allied Health and Science Community College of Vermont Montpelier, Vermont
LaFleur Brooks & LaFleur Brooks
NEW! Case studies introduce medical terminology in context and encourage critical thinking and information application.
NEW! Adaptive learning, gradeable case studies, and audio reviews are now available in the online course to provide a complete learning experience for distance learners. For separate sale.
NEW! Updated integrative medicine boxes introduce terminology related to integrative medicine (formerly complementary and alternative medicine).
NEW! Pronunciation exercises focus on the importance of the correct pronunciation of terms.
NEW! Updated terms and abbreviations reflect the latest advances in technology and the healthcare delivery system.
NEW! Updated drawings and photos keep readers abreast of current technology and healthcare processes.
1. Introduction to Medical Language and Online Learning
2. Body Structure, Color, and Oncology
3. Directional Terms, Planes, Positions, Regions, and Quadrants
4. Integumentary System
5. Respiratory System and Introduction to Diagnostic Procedures and Tests
6. Urinary System
7. Male Reproductive System
8. Female Reproductive System
9. Obstetrics and Neonatology
10. Cardiovascular, Immune, Lymphatic Systems and Blood
11. Digestive System
12. Eye
13. Ear
14. Musculoskeletal System
15. Nervous System and Behavioral Health
16. Endocrine System
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The economics-security disconnect in America's Indo-Pacific strategy
Hoang Thi Ha For The Straits Times
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The rolling out of the United States' Indo-Pacific strategy at this year's Shangri-La Dialogue (SLD) raises more questions than answers. Acting Secretary of Defence Patrick Shanahan emphasised that the US will pursue its Indo-Pacific strategy with a whole-of-government approach and a fully funded defence strategy.
Such a strategy, however, would be bound to fail unless it has a strong economics-trade component, along with the security dimension.
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US-CHINA TRADE WAR
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Ronaldo & Pogba reunions excite Herrera as Man Utd count down the days to Juventus clash
Written By Chris Burton
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P. Pogba
Manchester United’s upcoming Champions League clash with Juventus promises to be a “special” occasion, says Ander Herrera, with Paul Pogba and Cristiano Ronaldo preparing for emotional reunions with familiar faces.
The Red Devils have been placed in Group H alongside the current Serie A title holders.
Their paths are set to cross for the first time on October 23, as the Bianconeri visit Old Trafford, with a return date in Turin pencilled in for November 7.
Back-to-back European clashes between two continental heavyweights promise to produce fireworks, with there plenty of intriguing subplots to the fixtures as global superstars return to former stomping grounds.
United midfielder Herrera told the club’s official website on two eagerly-anticipated matches: “He [Ronaldo] came back with Real Madrid and I think our fans still love him, what he did for the club was great. But I hope he enjoys it only before the game!
“It will be very special for Paul to go back to Italy, to Turin. He went there as a kid and he became a man there and then he came back home.
“I think the fans still love him as well and they will give him a very warm reception. But let’s focus on the game as it will be special.”
Herrera added: “It’s a big challenge for us but I’m happy with the group because I think we perform better against top teams and Juventus is the biggest club in Italy.
“They have done amazing in the last few years, it looks like they have a very strong club – the connection between the players, the manager and the fans is great.
“So I think it’s going to be interesting for all our fans and for Paul it will be special and for Cristiano Ronaldo too. It’ll be a good game to play.”
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Before facing Juventus, United have Champions League games with Young Boys and Valencia to contend with.
It is, however, meetings with the Bianconeri that continue to whet the appetite, with Herrera conceding that the Italian giants pose a significant threat to Jose Mourinho’s side and their European aspirations.
The Spain international added: “Nowadays [with Juve] it’s not only about the defence, I think they are very strong also in attack. They are a very balanced team, very experienced and they have great players, and they have done really well in the last few years.
“Milan used to be there fighting with them for the titles, Inter as well, but Juve have been almost unstoppable in the last few years so congratulations to them, but we will try to beat them and I think it’s a very good challenge for us.”
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Ricky Williams or Adrian Peterson?
Written By Ken Bradley
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Ricky Williams and Adrian Peterson are two of the greatest running backs to come through the college football.
Williams ran for a staggering 6,279 career yards and 72 touchdowns in four seasons. He added another 85 receptions for 927 yards receiving. He won the Heisman in 1998 when he ran for 2,124 yards — a season after he totaled 1,893.
Peterson kicked off his career with a monster freshman season not seen since Herschel Walker led Georgia to the national title in 1980. Peterson ran 339 times for 1,925 yards and 15 touchdowns. For his three-year career — his junior year was cut short due to injury — he ran for 4,041 yards with 41 TDs.
MORE DEBATES: Bo or Herschel? | Cam or Tebow?
Tremendous talents at Big 12 rival schools.
We polled former players, coaches and current media members on which college version of the player they’d take and they chose Williams by a slim margin, 53 percent to 47 percent.
“Williams' body broke down in the NFL but he was the ultimate workhorse back at Texas, while Peterson had trouble staying healthy at OU,” says Dave Matter of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. “Williams was also the superior receiver and a more efficient runner.”
MORE: Week 2 Heisman watch | Four in, four out | 10 greatest Texas Longhorns
Here’s more comments on the debate:
Joel Klatt, Fox Sports college football analyst/former Colorado QB: I'll take AP. I had the opportunity to watch AP his true freshman year from the opposing sideline and he was the best player I've ever shared a field with. His combination of speed, power, and WILL was striking and quite frankly, scary.
Randy Rosetta, Times-Picayune: Ricky. Showed that he was more durable than AP, although not as explosive.
Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star: Peterson. Williams was more durable, but Peterson had the best speed and strength for a back that I've seen in the last 20 years.
Josh Kendall, The (Columbia, S.C.) State: Ricky Williams. Peterson has had more staying power, but that may be because Texas used up Williams, who rushed for more than 4,000 yards and 52 touchdowns in his final two seasons.
Buck Belue, former Georgia QB and host co-host of Buck and Kincade radio show in Atlanta: Tough call, but AP was a big-play waiting to happen on every play. Big-play ability separates him a little from Williams.
Carlos Alvarez, Hall of Fame receiver at Florida: Ricky Williams. Speed, great hands, elusiveness, power, durability, intelligence and determination at the 99.9 percentile of college backs ever. … Adrian was superb but at the 99.8 percentile level.
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Sri Chinmoy answers, part 19
by Sri Chinmoy
Welcome to the home of Sri Chinmoy answers, part 19 by Sri Chinmoy.
First published by Agni Press in 1999.
Reprinted with the permission of Sri Chinmoy.
Question: Why do animals have to suffer pain, illness and injury since they are not conscious like human beings?1
Question: With the stresses and demands of daily life, how can I maintain the kind of life-energy that I need to play my music with all my heart for the public?
Question: In one of your books you said that four hours of sleep is all you need if you are meditating. Would you speak about this? I would love to have more time.
SCA 683-693. Excerpts from an interview with Mr. Edgar Tcheporov, US correspondent of the Literary Gazette (Moscow), on 28 February 1993.
Question: How would you answer one of the major philosophical questions — “What is the purpose of creation?”
Question: What is the main idea of your philosophy?
Question: Your accomplishments in almost all spheres of human life are tremendous. What is the source of your exceptional productivity and creativity?
Question: How do you view the present state of mankind? The world is splitting apart. How would you explain the outburst of hostility and brutality all over the world? Can you suggest any solution to it?
Question: What is behind your interest in Russia? How do you think you can help us? How do you see the future of Russia?
Question: What is the main difference between the Western and Eastern mentality? Could this difference be eliminated for the purpose of better understanding and coexistence between all nations?
Question: What is your view of Indian philosophy?
Question: How many hours do you sleep?
Question: Can you say that you have created your own style of life?
Question: Why have your ideas attracted so many people here and also in so many different parts of the world?
Question: What do you mean by the heart?
SCA 694-702. Sri Chinmoy answered these questions on 9 March 1993.
Question: When I am aware that an undivine quality is manifesting itself in and though me, how can I illumine it?
Question: Are love of sport and natural talent enough to win, or must an athlete develop a ‘killer instinct’?
Question: What does ‘chastity’ mean exactly and why is it necessary?
Question: If a person has started practising spirituality but has given up after a while for lack of inspiration, how will this affect her afterlife? Will God welcome her in the same way when she goes to Heaven?
Question: Is it bad to doubt God?
Question: What is more important for older people: cheerfulness or wisdom-light?
Question: What are the limitations of science and technology?
Question: What is the relationship between the ego, the soul and the Inner Pilot?
Question: How can I simplify my life?
SCA 703-705. Sri Chinmoy answered these questions on 6 October 1993 in Tokyo.
Question: You said recently that this year will be difficult. What should we be careful of? What should we pay attention to?
Question: We are planning to give small concerts of your music after our lectures about your path. Should we perform your songs in the way that you perform them? Should we try to imitate your way?
Question: If somebody continues to walk along the spiritual path, can that person at the end see the Supreme?
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10 District Secretaries transferred
At least 10 District Secretaries have been transferred or replaced due to retirement with few more transfers to follow, officials said.
The transfers include the District Secretaries of Colombo, Kilinochchi, Vavuniya, Mullaitivu, Puttalam, Hambantota, Batticaloa and Monaragala.
The District Secretary of Batticaloa M. Udayakumar who is retiring is being replaced by Kalamathi Padmaraja who is currently serving in the Eastern Provincial Council. The new Kilinochchi District Secretary will be Ms Rupavahi Kethiswaran who is currently in the Mullaitivu district. The Kilinochchi district previous District Secretary was earlier transferred as a Ministry Secretary.
Mr S. Amalanathan who is currently serving as an Additional Secretary of the Disaster Management Ministry has been appointed as the District Secretary for Mullaitivu.
The details of the other transfers were not available immediately.
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The Son Dies SERIES – The Original Queen B (Life Lessons from Bathsheba)
2 Samuel 12 NLT
1 So the Lord sent Nathan the prophet to tell David this
story: “There were two men in a certain town. One was
rich, and one was poor.
2 The rich man owned a great many sheep and cattle.
3 The poor man owned nothing but one little lamb he
had bought. He raised that little lamb, and it grew up
with his children. It ate from the man’s own plate and
drank from his cup. He cuddled it in his arms like a
baby daughter.
4 One day a guest arrived at the home of the rich man.
But instead of killing an animal from his own flock or
herd, he took the poor man’s lamb and killed it and
prepared it for his guest.”
5 David was furious. “As surely as the Lord lives,” he
vowed, “any man who would do such a thing
deserves to die!
6 He must repay four lambs to the poor man for the one
he stole and for having no pity.”
7 Then Nathan said to David, “You are that man! The
Lord, the God of Israel, says: I anointed you king of
Israel and saved you from the power of Saul.
8 I gave you your master’s house and his wives and the
kingdoms of Israel and Judah. And if that had not
been enough, I would have given you much, much
9 Why, then, have you despised the word of the Lord
and done this horrible deed? For you have murdered
Uriah the Hittite with the sword of the Ammonites and
stolen his wife.
10 From this time on, your family will live by the sword
because you have despised me by taking Uriah’s wife
to be your own.
11 “This is what the Lord says: Because of what you have
done, I will cause your own household to rebel against
you. I will give your wives to another man before your
very eyes, and he will go to bed with them in public
12 You did it secretly, but I will make this happen to you
openly in the sight of all Israel.”
13 Then David confessed to Nathan, “I have sinned
against the Lord.” Nathan replied, “Yes, but the Lord
has forgiven you, and you won’t die for this sin.
14 Nevertheless, because you have shown utter
contempt for the Lord by doing this, your child will
die.”
15 After Nathan returned to his home, the Lord sent a
deadly illness to the child of David and Uriah’s wife.
16 David begged God to spare the child. He went
without food and lay all night on the bare ground.
17 The elders of his household pleaded with him to get up
and eat with them, but he refused.
18 Then on the seventh day the child died. David’s
advisers were afraid to tell him. “He wouldn’t listen to
reason while the child was ill,” they said. “What drastic
thing will he do when we tell him the child is dead?”
19 When David saw them whispering, he realized what
had happened. “Is the child dead?” he asked. “Yes,”
they replied, “he is dead.”
20 Then David got up from the ground, washed himself,
put on lotions, and changed his clothes. He went to
the Tabernacle and worshiped the Lord. After that, he
returned to the palace and was served food and ate.
21 His advisers were amazed. “We don’t understand
you,” they told him. “While the child was still living,
you wept and refused to eat. But now that the child
is dead, you have stopped your mourning and are
eating again.”
22 David replied, “I fasted and wept while the child was
alive, for I said, ‘Perhaps the Lord will be gracious to
me and let the child live.’
23 But why should I fast when he is dead? Can I bring him
back again? I will go to him one day, but he cannot
return to me.”
24 Then David comforted Bathsheba, his wife, and slept
with her. She became pregnant and gave birth to a
son, and they named him Solomon. The Lord loved the
25 and sent word through Nathan the prophet that they
should name him Jedidiah (which means “beloved of
the Lord”), as the Lord had commanded.
26 Meanwhile, Joab was fighting against Rabbah,
the capital of Ammon, and he captured the royal
fortifications.
27 Joab sent messengers to tell David, “I have fought
against Rabbah and captured its water supply.
28 Now bring the rest of the army and capture the city.
Otherwise, I will capture it and get credit for the
victory.”
29 So David gathered the rest of the army and went to
Rabbah, and he fought against it and captured it.
30 David removed the crown from the king’s head, and
it was placed on his own head. The crown was made
of gold and set with gems, and it weighed seventy-five
pounds. David took a vast amount of plunder from the
31 He also made slaves of the people of Rabbah and
forced them to labor with saws, iron picks, and iron
axes, and to work in the brick kilns. That is how he dealt
with the people of all the Ammonite towns. Then David
and all the army returned to Jerusalem.
2 Samuel 11:1-5 NLT – 1 In the spring of the year, when
kings normally go out to war, David sent Joab and the
Israelite army to fight the Ammonites. They destroyed the
Ammonite army and laid siege to the city of Rabbah.
However, David stayed behind in Jerusalem. 2 Late one
afternoon, after his midday rest, David got out of bed
and was walking on the roof of the palace. As he looked
out over the city, he noticed a woman of unusual beauty
taking a bath. 3 He sent someone to find out who she
was, and he was told, “She is Bathsheba, the daughter
of Eliam and the wife of Uriah the Hittite.” 4 Then David
sent messengers to get her; and when she came to the
palace, he slept with her. She had just completed the
purification rites after having her menstrual period. Then she
returned home. 5 Later, when Bathsheba discovered that
she was pregnant, she sent David a message, saying, “I’m
pregnant.”
Idleness is not the absence of activity but the
absence of purpose.
I. The Confrontation
A. The Illustration (vs. 1-4)
B. The Indignation (vs. 5-6)
C. The Identification (vs. 7-12)
II. The Confession (v. 13)
Psalm 32:3-5 CEV – 3 There was a time when
I wouldn’t admit what a sinner I was. But my
dishonesty made me miserable and filled my
days with frustration. 4 All day and all night your
hand was heavy on me. My strength evaporated
like water on a sunny day 5 until I finally admitted
all my sins to you and stopped trying to hide
them. I said to myself, “I will confess them to the
Lord.” And you forgave me! All my guilt is gone.
III. The Consequences (vs. 14-15)
Consequences are the negative, natural chain
of events that occur because of poor choices
and actions.
IV. Calamity (vs. 15-23)
Grief is the outpouring of emotions and pain that
express how you feel because of a significant
loss.
Types of Grief
1. Anticipatory grief – before loss
• Shock
• Anger
• Bargaining
• Acceptance
2. Bereavement grief – after loss
• Sorrow
• Struggle
• Surrender
• Sanctification
V. Closure (vs. 20-23)
VI. Continuation (vs. 26-31)
Matthew 15:21-22 NLT – 21 Then Jesus left Galilee
and went north to the region of Tyre and Sidon.
22 A Gentile woman who lived there came to
him, pleading, “Have mercy on me, O Lord, Son
of David! For my daughter is possessed by a
demon that torments her severely.”
Mark 10:46-47 NLT – 46 Then they reached
Jericho, and as Jesus and his disciples left town,
a large crowd followed him. A blind beggar
named Bartimaeus (son of Timaeus) was sitting
beside the road. 47 When Bartimaeus heard
that Jesus of Nazareth was nearby, he began to
shout, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!”
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Picking up the aftermath of Fourth of July festivities
News | July 10, 2012
Trisha Leonard
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Courtesy of Chris BrackettWomen and girls are shown July 5 during a beach cleanup.
More than 6,500 pounds of trash were picked up following Fourth of July festivities on the South Shore.
Kenny Curtzwiler, owner of SkiBum Family Inc., said this was his 14th year doing cleanup on July 5. He said his crew of six people picked up about 25 yards – or 5,000 pounds of trash – this year.
“I used to go to Regan Beach and was appalled at all the trash tourists and locals would leave behind,” he said. “I wanted to do something about it.”
Curtzwiler said his team started its job at the beach across from Aloha Ice Cream and Dessert Spa and raked the area, emptied trash cans and cleaned up trash on the beach all the way down to Regan beach.
Clean Tahoe Program Manager Ellen Flynn said her organization was in charge of cleaning up public areas including the Stateline area and parts of roads. Two employees picked up about 1,600 pounds of trash, she said.
This year, South Tahoe Standup Paddle owner Chris Brackett also organized a volunteer effort to help clean up the Lakeview Commons area.
“City parks and rec is underfunded and there’s so much work to do, but they don’t have the manpower,” Brackett said July 5. “When people really care, it’s great to see because it’s our Tahoe.”
Brackett said about 30-40 people volunteered and picked up about 50 pounds of little stuff such as cigarette butts and beer bottles.
South Tahoe Refuse took care of the dumping fees for the cleanups.
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Halloween 2019: From trick-or-treating to haunted hikes, everything you want to know about Halloween on the Treasure Coast
It's time for Halloween fun and we've rounded up all there is to do and know about the hallowed celebrations in St. Lucie, Indian River and Martin Counties.
Halloween 2019: From trick-or-treating to haunted hikes, everything you want to know about Halloween on the Treasure Coast It's time for Halloween fun and we've rounded up all there is to do and know about the hallowed celebrations in St. Lucie, Indian River and Martin Counties. Check out this story on tcpalm.com: https://www.tcpalm.com/story/entertainment/2019/10/28/halloween-2019-events-and-things-do-treasure-coast-stuart-martin-vero-st-lucie-indian-river/4063753002/
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Hobgoblins take over downtown Stuart with Halloween fun
"Trick-or-treat," said Jackson Vincent, 6, of Stuart, dressed as Captain America, during the annual merchant trick-or-treating and Hobgoblin Parade on Saturday, Oct. 26, 2019, in downtown Stuart. The costume parade featured children in Halloween costumes along Osceola Street. CRYSTAL VANDER WEIT/SPECIAL TO TCPALM
Koa Dunton, 5, of Jensen Beach, dressed as a witch, paints a pumpkin mug during the annual merchant trick-or-treating and the Hobgoblin Parade on Saturday, Oct. 26, 2019, in downtown Stuart. “I wanted to be spooky this year,” said Dunton. The costume parade featured children in Halloween costumes along Osceola Street. CRYSTAL VANDER WEIT/SPECIAL TO TCPALM
“What are you,” asked Roman Grace, 6, dressed as a cat, as she picks up candy for Katherine Carbone, 8, of Port St. Lucie, dressed as ’made of money’, in front of the Lisa Gay Fashions store during the annual merchant trick-or-treating and the Hobgoblin Parade on Saturday, Oct. 26, 2019, in downtown Stuart. The costume parade featured children in Halloween costumes along Osceola Street. CRYSTAL VANDER WEIT/SPECIAL TO TCPALM
Brianna Morin, 7, of Stuart, dressed as a zombie cheerleader, during the annual merchant trick-or-treating and the Hobgoblin Parade on Saturday, Oct. 26, 2019, in downtown Stuart. The costume parade featured children in Halloween costumes along Osceola Street. CRYSTAL VANDER WEIT/SPECIAL TO TCPALM
The annual merchant trick-or-treating and the Hobgoblin Parade on Saturday, Oct. 26, 2019, in downtown Stuart. The costume parade featured children in Halloween costumes along Osceola Street. CRYSTAL VANDER WEIT/SPECIAL TO TCPALM
Zombies and dinosaurs and scary clowns, oh my!
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If you’re not taking the kids trick-or-treating through the neighborhood or staying home to hand out candy, you can find plenty of not-so-scary, family-friendly things to do, as well as fun late-night parties.
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Local lore shared at Ghosts of Fort Pierce Past Walking Tour
Treasure Coast Newspapers columnist Anthony Westbury speaks to a tour group as "newspaperman" Charles Miley during the Ghosts of Fort Pierce Past walking tours Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2016, in downtown Fort Pierce. XAVIER MASCAREÑAS/TREASURE COAST NEWSPAPERS
Christian Vargas (left) and Sarah Sewell, who were both born and raised in Fort Pierce, prepare to play their parts as Sunrise Theatre founder Rupert “Pop” Koblegard and his wife “Mama” Koblegard during the Ghosts of Fort Pierce Past walking tours Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2016, in downtown Fort Pierce. “I’ve done the Ghost Tours for five years now, but this is my first time doing this part of the tour,” said Sewell, also a student at Indian River State College. “It’s so interesting to see how much history we have around Fort pierce, and how interesting our story really is — the things we look at now that were built a long time ago that have such an impact that we don’t even realize on a day to day basis,” she added. XAVIER MASCAREÑAS/TREASURE COAST NEWSPAPERS
Images from the Ghosts of Fort Pierce Past walking tours Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2016, in downtown Fort Pierce. XAVIER MASCAREÑAS/TREASURE COAS
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We’ve put together the scariest things to do on the Treasure Coast at Halloween time and beyond.
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Historical Halloween: Throwback photos that scream spooky fun
Halloween excitement and festivities have continued strong through the years. Check out these throwback Halloween pictures, complete with costumes, candy and decor. In this photo, children try to bite into apples at the annual Halloween Party sponsored by the Children's Aid Society in Little Italy in New York on Oct. 25, 1939. AP Photo
Dressed in their bunny outfits, Warren and Missey (below) Millard of Miami are ready for a night of trick-or-treating on Halloween in 1974. AP Photo
Mary Woevodsky, English girl on the staff of the American Nurses Club, ties the chin ribbons for Captain Raymond J. Goodhart of Arlington, Virginia at the Gala Halloween party staged by the club in London, England in 1942. AP Photo
Tombstones, ghouls, weird noises and a witch gave a Halloween welcome to youngsters in this undated photo. Robert Steinau/Courier Journal
William Franklin, 9, left, and Tom LePere, 8, sit atop a pumpkin pile at Brewster, New York in 1976. AP Photo
A girl reads a hair-raising story on a pre-Halloween night in New York in 1964. Ruben Goldberg, AP
Gary Davis and his sister Gina Rose find that grocery bags make a fine improvised costume for Halloween in 1963. Robert Steinau/Courier Journal
Anita Rosenblum holds her dog, Samson, who, dressed as a crayon, was among the finalists at a Halloween costume contest for pets held at a Chicago pet store on Oct. 29, 1978. Fred Jewell, AP
This multiple-exposure photograph transforms Susan into a little ghoul on Halloween night, Oct. 31, 1966. Eddie Adams, AP
Throwing themselves into the fun, Jamia Osburn, left, and Wally Burke bob for apples at the YMCA Halloween carnival in Henderson, Kentucky in 1976. Dan Carraco/Courier Journal
Teresa Forrest puts the finishing touches on a personalized Halloween pumpkin at the roadside stand she runs in front of her home on Route 1-A in Winterport, Maine in 1985. AP Photo
Alicia Rockey was a picture of witchful thinking as she trick-or-treated in 1992. Michael Hayman/Courier Journal
Cassandra Rusie is dressed up to look like Logan, a Dalmation, for a "Howl-O-Ween" contest in Roseville, Michigan on Oct. 28, 1995. Duane Burleson, AP
Ashley Troklus, 2, got a little bored waiting for a costume contest to begin in 1986. Paul Schuhmann/Courier Journal
Laurie Cabot, the "White Witch of Salem," shown with friends at a Halloween party in Salem, Massachusetts in 1974. RW, AP
Julie Babbin, left, with Diane Hanssen, right, sport the latest garb for Halloween as they check their jack-o-lanterns in their Boston home on Oct. 31, 1983. Ted Gartland, AP
Glen Sherrerd used wood, cardboard, wire, paper and just about anything around to create a collection of fictional characters in his front yard in 1964. George Bailey/Courier Journal
Magician Doug Henning, right, shows actor John Ritter a card trick as they celebrate Halloween on Oct. 31, 1978, at the Magic Castle, a private magicians' club in Hollywood. Reed Saxon, AP
Parade-goers dress up in their Halloween costumes at a Halloween festival in Anaheim, California on Oct. 20, 1962. AP Photo
Dressed in her Raggedy Ann costume, Becky Lanning, left, shares a laugh with onlookers viewing a stuffed crocodile during a scarecrow contest at in Vacaville, California in 1986. Walt Zeboski, AP
These jack-o-lanterns offer Dickie Clark, 13, of St. Paul a stern warning to mind his manners on Halloween 1965. AP Photo
Elementary school children attend a Halloween festival in Anaheim, California on Oct. 20, 1962. AP Photo
West Homestead Elementary School teacher Suzanne Best paints a face on Miguel Chavez as her kindergarten class prepared for Halloween in Homestead, Florida on Oct. 30, 1992. Wayne Fleisher, AP
Kids dressed in superhero costumes gear up for Halloween in Oakland, New Jersey in 1966. Eddie Adams, AP
Diane Wu, left, and Ariel Xue show their delight at "Skatefright Masquerade" a Halloween party on skates in New York City's Central Park Sunday on Oct. 29, 1995. Kathy Willens, AP
Several marchers decked out in imaginative costumes participate in the annual Halloween parade in New York's Greenwich Village on Oct. 31, 1987. Frankie Ziths, AP
It's a couple of days until Halloween, and you don't have a costume for your kid yet! No worries. There are many amazing costumes you can create with stuff lying around your house, or with a quick trip to the dollar store.
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Free food, deals and spooky specials at Krispy Kreme, Chipotle and more
A Halloween costume also is the ticket to a smorgasbord of free and cheap meal deals and goodies for kids of all ages at restaurants nationwide. In some cases, a costume or purchase isn't required to score all the special treats.
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A rustic path leads to a large tree in Oak Hammock Park, believed to be haunted by the spirits of two teens killed there in the 1970s. (Photo: CONTRIBUTED PHOTO BY KEN CAMERON)
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Water Electrolysis Cell
HONDA GIKEN KK Japanese Appl. 2003-166,093
A water electrolysis cell (1) has a pair of catalytic layers (2) between which is a solid polymer electrolyte membrane. The catalyst in the anode side of (2) is made from a Ru–Ir alloy, and a metal(s) selected from Fe, Ni and Co, or an oxide of the alloy, or a mixture of alloy and oxide. At least one of Fe, Ni and Co has molar ratio w.r.t. Ru and Ir of 0.05–0.13 mol to 0.8–2.2 mol, preferably 1.8–2.2 mol of Ru and 0.8–1.2 mol of Ir. (1) gives a high energy efficiency over a long time.
PHOTOCONVERSION
Phosphorescent Dendrimers in LEDs
ISIS INNOVATION LTD World Appl. 03/079,736
An LED comprises at least one layer containing a phosphorescent organometallic dendrimer with a metal cation, such as Ir, and two or more coordinating groups (1) as part of its core. At least two of (1) each have a dendron attached, and at least one of them comprises at least one N atom forming part of an aromatic ring system or directly bonded to at least two aromatic groups.
Photoelectrochemical Cell
NIPPON SHEET GLASS KK Japanese Appl. 2003-163,037
An electrode for a dye sensitising-type photoelectrochemical cell of low internal resistance has a TiO2 porous semiconductor body that includes a dye sensitising agent (1) and a conductive whisker (2). (1) is a bipyridine-carboxylic acid Ru complex hydrate and (2) is preferably of diameter 0.4–0.7 µm, length 5–20 µm, aspect ratio 10 to 20 and resistance 0.1–1 Ω cm−1. The cell has little power generation loss.
Organic Electroluminescent Iridium Complex
MITSUBISHI CHEM. CORP Japanese Appl. 2003-192,691
An organic electroluminescent element (1) has a luminescent layer containing a mixed ligand-type organic Ir complex (2) sandwiched between an anode and a cathode. (2) gives improved colour purity in the emission of light of long wavelength, has high luminescent efficiency and gives long life to (1).
ELECTRODEPOSITION AND SURFACE COATINGS
Iridium-Aluminium Protective Surface Coating
GENERAL ELECTRIC CO U.S Patent 6,630,250
An article substrate is protected by a coating over its surface formed by depositing a layer of Ir, then a layer of Al on top of the Ir layer. The substrate, Ir layer and Al layer are then heated and form an Ir–Al protective coating. A ceramic thermal barrier coating may be applied over the protective coating.
APPARATUS AND TECHNIQUE
Biosensor for Detecting Macromolecular Biopolymers
INFINEON TECHNOL. AG World Appl. 03/079,016
Macromolecular biopolymers can be detected by a sensor that contains a unit to immobilise them and a unit to detect their signal. The latter unit uses a Pd, Pt, Au, etc., electrode. An evaluation circuit for the signal, containing a semiconducting layer with an organic material, is coupled to the detection unit.
Optical Sensor for Detecting an Analyte
METTLER TOLEDO GmbH U.S Patent 6,653,148
An optical sensor (1) for determining an analyte, specifically O2, has a sensor matrix (2) made of a fluoropolymer. (2) contains a luminescent indicator with a metal complex of Ru, Rh, Ir or Re, and with at least one partially fluorinated ligand. Detection occurs by bringing (1) into contact with the measuring medium and by determining changes in an optical property resulting from interaction between the analyte and the luminescent indicator.
Catalyst for the Synthesis of Chiral Vicinal Diols
CSIR European Appl. 1,346,767
A multifunctional reusable catalyst M–(S), made on support (S) produces chiral vicinal diols by tandem and/or simultaneous reactions involving Heck coupling, N-oxidation and addition reaction of olefins in the presence of cinchona alkaloid compounds in a single pot. (S) is a layered double hydroxide (LDH), resin, SiO2, etc., or unmodified support selected from resin and SiO2. M is an active species of ≥ 2 of Pd, Ru, Os, W. M–(S) is PdOs–LDH, PdOsW–SiO2, etc., and is used in place of soluble Os catalysts.
Treatment of Industrial Organic Pollutants
CNRS World Appl. 03/064,333
Industrial effluent containing organic pollutants is treated by ozonation in a reactor in the presence of a Ru and/or Ir catalyst (1) supported on CeO2, ZrO2 and/or TiO2. Catalyst particle size is 20–500 µm. The effluent treated with ozone and the catalyst is continuously fed through a separation system to separate (1). Part of the effluent free of (1) is removed; the remainder is recycled with (1) into the reactor.
Production of Amines
BASF AG World Appl. 03/066,571
Amines are produced by the catalytic hydrogenation of nitroaromatics. The C supported catalyst of Pt, Pd and/or Ir is then separated from the reaction mixture which contains aromatic amine(s) and H2O. The catalysts are separated by membrane filtration at 5–50 bar on the side of the suspension (1), a difference in pressure between (1) and the side of the permeate of ≥ 0.3 bar, and a flow rate of 1–6 m s−1 on (1).
Catalyst for the Reduction of NO to N2
CSIC World Appl. 03/068,390
A catalyst (1) contains Pt crystals in contact with a mixture of MgO and CeO2 or Pt/MgO–CeO2 (2) which was selectively sulfated. (1) has excellent activity, selectivity and stability for reducing NO to N2, using H2 as a reducing agent, at 100–200°C and in an excess of O2 (5 vol.%), H2O (5 vol.%) and/or SO2 (20 ppm). With (2), full NO conversion and 83% N2 selectivity are obtained at 150°C with a reaction mixture of 0.25% NO/1% H2/5% O2/5% H2O/He.
Production of 7-Alkyl-8-hydroxyquinolines
NISSAN CHEMICAL IND. LTD World Appl. 03/091,218
7-Alkyl-8-hydroxyquinolines (1) are produced in high purity and good yield by reducing 7-alkenyl-8-hydroxyquinolines under H2 in the presence of an inorganic base, such as NaOH, and a Group VIII metal catalyst, such as Pd, Pd/C, etc. No substantial hydrogenation of the hetero-ring occurs so an adequate reaction rate can be obtained. (1) find use as an extracting agent for solvent extraction of metal ions.
Multiple-Component Metallic Combustion Catalyst
CLEAN DIESEL TECHNOL. INC
U.S. Appl. 2003/0,148,235
Residual and lighter distillate fuels are combusted with greater efficiency using low concentrations of specific bimetallic or trimetallic fuel-borne catalysts, such as a fuel-soluble Pt with Ce and/or Fe catalyst (1). (1) reduces the fouling of heat transfer surfaces by unburned C while limiting the amount of secondary additive ash. Ultra-low levels of this nontoxic metal combustion catalyst are used to improve heat recovery and lower emissions of the pollutants.
Palladium and Zirconia Catalyst
CATACEL CORP U.S. Patent 6,620,761
A catalyst which includes Pd and Zr is formed as a suspension (1) and can be coated onto a metal strip. (1) is formed by combining Pd nitrate with a solution of an alkyl ammonium hydroxide, and further mixing with a hydrous Zr oxide. HNO3 may be added to the Pd nitrate. The resulting composition exhibits superior activity and good adhesion to the metal strip, and can catalyse a combustion reaction as well as a steam reforming reaction.
Hydrogenolysis Catalyst
NE CHEMCAT CORP U.S. Patent 6,624,112
A hydrogenolysis catalyst (1) comprises: (a) a component(s) selected from Pd oxide, Pd oxide mono- hydrate, and Pd hydroxide in the Pd(II) oxidation state and contains 0.1–50 wt.% Pd, and (b) a component(s) from Pt, Ru, Rh, Ir and Au, on a non-organic porous support, such as activated C, acetylene black, SiO2/Al2O3, TiO2 and ZrO2. (1) has high hydrogenolysis performance at low temperatures and during the debenzylation reaction of a compound wherein a benzyl group combines with a N atom. This is difficult for conventional catalysts.
Three-Way Catalysts
JOHNSON MATTHEY PLC U.S. Patent 6,625,976
A Pt group metal (pgm) three-way catalyst contains a high temperature support (1) and a low temperature support (2), both with enhanced catalytic activity at > 500°C and 200–400°C, respectively, and each being in the same washcoat layer. The mean particle size of (1) and (2) in the washcoat slurry is < 20 µm to prevent formation of a solution or a sol with the liquid medium of the slurry. The pgm is impregnated into the support either after formation of the washcoat on a non-porous refractory, metallic or palletised substrate, or before forming the washcoat slurry.
HOMOGENEOUS CATALYSIS
Manufacture of Ketopantolactone
ROCHE VITAMINS AG World Appl. 03/091,235
A process is described to oxidise pantolactone to ketopantolactone (1) with a periodate in the presence of a Ru catalyst in aqueous solvent using a microwave field. (1) is a key intermediate in the manufacture of pantothenic acid, a member of the B complex vitamins and a constituent of coenzyme A. The asymmetric hydrogenation of (1) yields D-(-)-pantolactone for pantothenic acid manufacture.
Hydrogenation of Carboxylic Acids
DAVY PROCESS TECHNOL. LTD World Appl. 03/093,208
A homogeneous process for the hydrogenation of carboxylic acids and/or their derivatives in the presence of a catalyst comprising Ru, Rh, Os, Pd or Fe and an organic phosphine is described. The hydrogenation is carried out in the presence of at least ∼ 1 wt.% of H2O. The catalyst can be regenerated in the presence of H2 and H2O.
Osmium-Assisted Oxidative Cleavage of Olefins
MICHIGAN STATE UNIV. U.S. Appl. 2003/0,149,299
An Os-assisted process for oxidative cleavage of oxidisable organic compounds, such as unsaturated organic compounds: alkenes and olefins, uses an Os catalyst chosen from OsO4, OsCl3, K2OsO4·2H2O, and a peroxy compound selected from peroxymonosulfuric acid and its salts. The C–C double bond of an organic compound can be oxidised to aldehyde, carboxylic acid, ester, etc., in a reaction that gives ozonolysis results but fewer problems. An aldehyde can thus be oxidised alone or with the Os in an interactive solvent to produce an ester or a carboxylic acid.
Ruthenium Metal Alkylidene Complexes
CALIFORNIA INST. TECHNOL. U.S. Patent 6,624,265
Ru alkylidene complex (PCy3)(L)Cl2Ru(CHPh) catalysts, where L is a triazolylidene ligand, are more active for olefin metathesis at elevated temperatures than the parent (PCy3)2Cl2Ru(CHPh) (1). The complex with L = 1,3,4-triphenyl-4,5-dihydro-1H-triazol-5-ylidene (2) catalyses the RCM of substituted dienes to give tetrasubstituted cyclic olefins in good yield. (2) has the same stability towards O2 and moisture as (1).
Carbonyl Compound Production
A carbonyl compound is produced by the dehydrogenation of an alcohol in the presence of an organic phosphine-Ru complex catalyst. The catalyst is obtained by mixing an organic phosphine and a Ru compound in the atomic ratio P : Ru of 2–8, followed by heating. Addition of a H acceptor is not needed. Both the reaction rate and reaction efficiency are increased.
Aerogel Pt–Ru–C Catalyst in DMFC
KOREA INST. SCI. TECHNOL. U.S. Appl. 2003/0,176,277
An aerogel-type catalyst (1) contains 5–70 wt.% Pt and Ru, remainder C. The Pt:Ru atomic ratio is 1:4 to 4:1. A DMFC that employs (1) as an anode catalyst is disclosed. (1) is manufactured via a sol-gel process by adding metal salts and a base catalyst to a solution of organic gel materials, further adding a solution of basic amine and adjusting the pH to form a sol. This is followed by ageing, supercritical drying to make a type of aerogel (2), carbonising (2) and H reduction.
Nano-Level Platinum/Carbon Electrocatalyst
T. LU, X. LI and W. XING U.S. Appl. 2003/0,224,926
A nano-level Pt/C electrocatalyst (1) for the cathode of fuel cells is prepared using the chloride, bromide or iodide of NH4 or K as the anchoring agent for the H2PtCl6. The Pt particles are homogeneously distributed in the interstices and on surfaces of the active C. (1) has high specific activity per unit mass for the catalytic reduction of O2.
Cell Unit of a Fuel Cell
SANYO ELECTRIC CO LTD Japanese Appl. 2003-151,577
A cell unit of a fuel cell has a cell structure consisting of a Pt catalyst layer (1) and a gas diffusion layer arranged, in that order, on both sides of an electrolyte layer (2). (2) consists of a proton-conductive gel and an interlayer (3) containing C particles and electrolyte material. The porosity of (3) is smaller than that of (1). Even when (2) is formed using sol-gel processing, the pores in the catalyst layer are not covered by the electrolyte material. Pt utilisation in the catalyst is therefore increased and a high battery performance is obtained since the reaction gas is being fully supplied to the catalyst layer.
Fuel Cell Catalyst
HONDA GIKEN KOGYO KK Japanese Appl. 2003-173,787
A fuel cell, with an ion exchange membrane arranged between a negative and a positive electrode, generates power by contact of H2 with the fuel cell catalyst contained in the negative electrode. At the same time O2 contacts the catalyst in the positive electrode. The catalyst contains Pt alloyed with Fe, Co and/or Ni or other elements from Group VIII and Al. The catalyst can be easily structured and its catalytic function is as high or higher than that of Pt.
Multilayer Perpendicular Media
SEAGATE TECHNOL. LLC World Appl. 03/083,839
C or B is added into the CoCr layers of a multilayer perpendicular magnetic media (1) structure to reduce media noise. The structure of (1) has sharp interfaces between the Co-alloy layers and Pd or Pt layers, and significantly reduces exchange coupling. This relates to magnetic recording, especially to multilayer media that have columnar microstructure, and provides improved exchange decoupling and reduced noise.
Ruthenium Metal Layer
MICRON TECHNOL. INC U.S. Patent 6,617,248
A Ru metal layer for semiconductors is prepared by combining a Ru precursor with a measured amount of O2 to form a Ru oxide (1) layer. (1) is annealed in H2-rich gas to react the O in (1) with H2. By varying the O2 flow rate during the formation of (1), a Ru metal layer can be formed with various degrees of smooth and rough textures. The method reduces problems associated with manufacturing semiconductor devices, particularly in forming a Ru metal layer.
Synthetic Free Layer Structure for MRAM Devices
MAXTOR CORP U.S. Patent 6,649,960
A MRAM cell includes: a bottom electrode layer, a magnetic reference layer (1), an insulating layer, a synthetic free layer (2), and a top electrode layer. (2) has a first magnetic layer (3), a Ru antiferromagnetic coupling layer, and a second magnetic layer (4). (1), (3) and (4) are made of magnetic material, such as CoFeB, CoFe, or a bilayer of NiFe and CoFe. Layer (3) is made thicker than layer (4) for better operation.
Manufacture of Semiconductor Devices
HITACHI LTD Japanese Appl. 2003-158,203
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device that can etch a Ru film (1) with good reproducibility and at the same time achieve the high etching selection ratio of a resist film is claimed. The method comprises forming a resist pattern on (1), then irradiating its surface with an UV ray in a pretreatment chamber within an etching unit to remove any organic contaminant adhered to its surface. (1) is then etched, using the resist pattern as a mask, in an ozone atmosphere inside the etching unit.
Capacitor for a Semiconductor Device
HYNIX SEMICOND. INC Japanese Appl. 2003-163,284
A semiconductor device includes a diffusion barrier layer (1) containing a ternary system of Ru, Ti and O formed by MOCVD on a substrate. A capacitor formed on (1) includes a bottom electrode formed on (1), a dielectric layer (2) formed on the bottom electrode, and a top electrode formed on (2). (1) prevents capacitor malfunction by supressing O diffusion.
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41% of Parents May Seek New Provider Because of Unvaccinated Children at Their Doctor’s Office
News Aug 20, 2019 | Original story from the the University of Michigan
Four in 10 parents say they are very or somewhat likely to move their child to a different provider if their doctor sees families who refuse all childhood vaccines, according to a new national poll.
Most American children receive recommended vaccines protecting them from dangerous illnesses like measles and whooping cough.
But doctors sometimes care for children whose parents refuse vaccines against providers' recommendations. And that is not news many parents of vaccinated children want to hear, suggests the C.S. Mott Children's Hospital National Poll on Children's Health at the University of Michigan.
Three in 10 parents polled say that their child's primary care office should ask parents who refuse all vaccines to find another health provider.
"Pediatricians strive to keep children healthy through regular well-child care and this includes encouraging families to follow recommended vaccine schedules. When a family refuses all childhood vaccines, it puts providers in a challenging position," says Mott Poll co-director Sarah Clark, MPH.
"A completely unvaccinated child is unprotected against harmful and contagious diseases, such as measles, pertussis and chicken pox. Children who skip vaccines also pose a risk of transmitting diseases to other patients. This can be especially risky exposure for vulnerable populations, including infants too young to receive vaccines, elderly patients, patients with weakened immune systems or pregnant women."
The report is based on responses from 2,032 parents of at least one child 18 or under.
The poll also found that many parents are unaware of policies in their child's primary care office regarding unvaccinated children.
Thirty-nine percent of parents say their provider has a policy requiring children to get all recommended vaccines and 8% say children are required to get some vaccines. Another 15% of parents say their child's primary care provider's office has no policy about vaccination while 38% don't know if one exists.
Only 6% of parents say their child's primary care office does not allow unvaccinated children to use the same waiting area as other patients, while 2% say the office allows unvaccinated children to use the waiting area if they wear a mask. Twenty-four percent of parents say their child's primary care office allows unvaccinated children to use the same waiting area as other patients with no restrictions.
Parents are also divided in their views on what those policies should be and whether parents should be notified that there are children in the practice whose parents have refused all vaccines.
Seventeen percent say a completely unvaccinated child should not be allowed use the waiting room, and 27% say unvaccinated children should wear masks in the waiting room to protect the most vulnerable patients. The remaining 28% of parents say the primary care office should allow the unvaccinated child to continue getting care with no restrictions.
About 4 in 10 parents (43%) say they would want to know if there were other children at their child's primary care office whose parents had refused all vaccines while 33% say they would not want to know. If there were other children in the office whose parents had refused all vaccines, 12% of parents say they are very likely and 29% somewhat likely to move their own child to a different health care provider.
Typically, Clark says, child health providers will have multiple discussions with parents to explain the importance of childhood vaccinations, and to answer any questions the parents have about possible side effects.
"Providers usually do their best to address any concerns parents may have related to hesitancy about vaccines," Clark says. "In addition to explaining how vaccines protect the health of the child, providers also may share information about why an unvaccinated child exposes other children and patients to dangerous health risks too."
The majority of U.S. children receive all vaccines recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Vaccines often are given in conjunction with well-child visits with the primary care provider.
Barriers in scheduling appointments or parents' awareness about recommended vaccines may cause children to experience delays in vaccination or to miss some vaccines. A less common situation - but increasing in recent years - is parent refusal of all vaccines for their child.
Clark says the recent measles outbreak highlights the need for both parents and health care providers to consider policies around unvaccinated children. The highly contagious measles virus can live for several hours in an area where an infected person coughed or sneezed. However, people can spread the disease even before symptoms appear.
When parents bring a child with suspected measles to the waiting room of a doctor's office or emergency room, Clark says, they may expose many other patients to the disease.
"Parents may assume that when they take their child to the doctor, they are in a setting that will not expose their child to diseases. Parents may not have considered that there could another child in the waiting room whose parents have refused all vaccines," Clark says. "When prompted to think about it, most parents want the doctor's office to have some policy to limit the risk from unvaccinated children."
"Primary care providers need to think carefully about whether to institute policies to prevent their patients from being exposed to vaccine-preventable diseases, and then communicate those policies to all patients in their practice," she adds.
"Any parent - and particularly parents of infants or immunocompromised children - should ask their child's primary care provider about policies surrounding unvaccinated children."
Four in 10 parents say they are very or somewhat likely to move their child to a different provider if their doctor sees families who refuse all childhood vaccines. Credit: The C.S. Mott Children's Hospital National Poll on Children's Health at the University of Michigan.
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University of Manchester scientists investigating a possible treatment for fetal growth restriction (FGR), a condition in which babies grow poorly in the womb, have urged further caution on the use of Viagra.
Breakthrough in Battle To Curb Dengue
Scientists have engineered the first breed of genetically modified mosquitoes resistant to spreading all four types of the dengue virus.
A new immunocapture protein phosphatase inhibition assay (IC-PPIA) method for detection of microcystins and nodularin in human urine could help to detect exposure to harmful algal blooms.
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Top 10 Biopharma News Stories of 2019
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Horizon Discovery to Provide Access to Novel Base Editing Technology
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Xiaomi Mi 6 Review
Page 4 : Graphics, Throttling and Storage Performance
By Tim Schiesser on June 26, 2017
Flagship for Less
Hardware Overview and System Performance
Graphics, Throttling and Storage Performance
The GPU in the S835 has also received a healthy boost relative to the S821. We’re seeing typical raw performance gains of around 27 to 37 percent in offscreen GPU benchmarks, which is a handy gain that falls in line with what we’re seeing on the CPU side. With screens now extending beyond 2560 x 1440, the GPU is more than capable of handling those extra pixels (not that the Mi 6 uses a screen of that resolution).
The comparison between the Adreno 540 and the Exynos 8895’s Mali-G71 MP20 is rather interesting, as both GPUs trade blows in offscreen benchmarks. The Adreno 540 is anywhere from 11 percent faster to 8 percent slower depending on the offscreen test, while in other benchmarks like Basemark, the Adreno GPU falls well behind. Neither GPU is slow, though, and thanks to the Mi 6’s 1080p resolution we’re seeing pretty large onscreen performance gains over 1440p displays.
And finally, compared to the Kirin 960’s GPU, the Adreno 540 puts in a crushing performance to beat the G71 MP8 by upwards of 30 percent.
Bad news, everyone. The Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 in the Xiaomi Mi 6 throttles significantly under a GPU-heavy workload. In GFXBench’s Manhattan 3.1 test, the Mi 6 gets cut down by 43 percent after 25 minutes, matching the level of throttling seen by the Exynos variant of the Galaxy S8+. And this is even considering the lower resolution of the Mi 6’s display. Heavy throttling is always disappointing to see.
Storage performance follows the trend of the Galaxy S8+, in fact I wouldn’t be surprised if both phones use the same internal storage. The Xiaomi Mi 6 exhibits fantastic sequential performance, however it suffers in random performance compared to the best smartphones on the market. Still, the NAND performance in general here is pretty good.
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Berlin Film Festival 2018
Das schweigende Klassenzimmer (The Silent Revolution)
Berlin Film Festival 2018: Das schweigende Klassenzimmer (The Silent Revolution) | Review
Oliver Johnston
Movie and show review
15th to 25th February 2018
The direct English translation of the film’s original German title (The Silent Classroom) would have been more apt, since this so-called silent revolution gets rather shouty at times. There’s also the matter of someone in the post-production department abruptly and regularly cranking up the volume on the soundtrack, underscoring the obviousness of some scenes that were rather obvious from the beginning. The Silent Revolution isn’t subtle, but it clearly wasn’t meant to be.
Set largely in East Germany in an era that hasn’t been much explored in cinema, the movie takes place in 1956, and while Germany has been defeated and divided, the Berlin Wall has not yet gone up. Students Theo (Leonard Scheicher) and Kurt (Tom Gramenz) pay a visit to West Berlin, and sneak into the cinema – defrauding the decadent capitalists like good little communists. They’re shocked by newsreel footage depicting the violent expulsion of Soviet forces in Hungary. Back home, Kurt has the idea of leading the class in a moment of silence in honour of the Hungarians who perished. The trouble is, a very different version of events is being told back in the East. The eviction of the Soviets was also a rejection of socialism, and so the students’ efforts unwittingly bring them into a direct clash with the ideologies of East Germany.
Director Lars Kraume delivers a noble, if heavy-handed examination of true events, and while proceedings and characters appear thinly sketched at first (with multiple scenes of intrepid youngsters determined to get to the bottom of things, like a dogless, German version of Scooby Doo), a sense of gravity gradually settles when the consequences of their innocent and well-intentioned efforts become obvious.
Though melodramatic, the picture is grounded by winningly earnest performances from Scheicher and Gramenz as the idealistic students, with a measuredly daunting supporting turn from German cinematic stalwart Burghart Klaußner as the East German minister for education. The film is richly interesting and enlightening as opposed to being revelatory or engrossing. The Silent Revolution proudly wears its heart on its 1950s sleeve.
Das schweigende Klassenzimmer (The Silent Revolution) does not have a UK release date yet.
Read more reviews and interviews from our Berlin Film Festival 2018 coverage here.
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It’s just Jehovah’s Witnesses knocking on the door.
By TheWorldNewsOrg, December 8, 2019 in Topics
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It’s just Jehovah’s Witnesses knocking on the door. pic.twitter.com/PlTvKb3fBW
— The World News Media (@TheWorldNewsOrg) December 8, 2019
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When browsing on the Netflix website, an URL is generated when you click on a particular genre like www.netflix.com/browse/genre/ 6384 <<< the numbers in bold make the 'genre code'. For instance '6384' is the code for 'Tearjerkers'.
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Canadians are furious Netflix's sci-fi films like "Bird Box" use real footage from a 2013 accident in which an oil tanker killed 47 people in Lac-Megantic, Quebec
Netflix censors material on behalf of Mohammad bin Salman.
Netflix Reveals Rotten Truths of Industrial Food Industry
A new Netflix six-part documentary series, “Rotten,” exposes the various forms of corruption and fraud within the global food and agricultural industry. Each episode analyzes the scandals and controversies of different food sectors, from criminal exploitation in the United States fishing industry to “Honeygate”, the largest global food laundering and prosecution case in history.
“Rotten gives food the true crime treatment, diving deep into the food production underworld to expose the corruption, waste, and real dangers behind [our] everyday eating habits,” says Netflix of the new series.
Read more: https://foodtank.com/news/2018/01/netflix-reveals-rotten-truths-industrial-food-industry/
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Netflix is raising prices on its subscription service for the first time since 2015. Investors asked “what took so long?” sending its stock up 5% to a record high of $193.86—a much warmer response than when it jacked up prices 60% in 2011 and lost 800,000 U.S. subscribers.
Here are the brand new monthly bundles:
$7.99 for low definition on one device at a time—no change $10.99 for HD on up to two devices at a time–up $1. $13.99 for 4K access on up to four devices at a time–up $2. Despite the bump, Netflix’s 104 million subscribers shouldn’t fly the coop. The streaming provider is still cheaper than HBO’s ($14.99) and Hulu’s ($11.99) similar offerings.
It’s also keeping viewers hooked by pouring $6 billion into original programming and signing exclusive deals with A-list celebrities like David Letterman and Chris Rock (it’s even giving Adam Sandler another go after Jack and Jill).
Netflix reveals record subscriber numbers and adds 5.2 MILLION viewers in just three months...
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Own a £1m home in France - for nothing
By Richard Dyson
Updated: 07:01 EST, 4 January 2009
The deal sounds too good to be true - and one of the men behind it, the founder of failed property training business Inside Track, has a trail of ruined property investors in his wake. The Financial Mail's Richard Dyson investigates...
Fields of dreams: buy-to-let guru Jim Moore left many investors in his previous company out of pocket
As the cold weather and fears about the economy take an icy grip, the invitation to buy a fabulous £1m home in the sunny South of France and spend absolutely nothing seems highly tempting. But if you get a nagging feeling that this offer reminds you of something, then it is probably the sales mantra of one-time buy-to-let guru Jim Moore.
'Buying property with little or no deposit' was the phrase used by the founder of property training business Inside Track to attract clients. The company collapsed last year, leaving a trail of ruined and angry amateur property investors in its wake.
Now Moore is about to use the same sales patter, but in connection with a very different type of property and with some interesting new business partners.
The properties are hundreds of luxurious homes on a vast estate called the Domaine de Lavagnac in the stunning Languedoc region, famous for its fields of sunflowers. When the former vineyard is transformed - the target is within five years - it is claimed it will include a five-star hotel with champagne terraces, top restaurants, a gigantic spa and 'one of the most outstanding golf courses in Europe'. The business partners are brothers Charles and Barry Cox. Charles, a professional golfer and golf course designer, is not well known, but Barry's vast wealth derives from his success in the restaurant trade, where he founded the Hard Rock Cafe and other establishments.
Outside the business pages of the newspapers, Barry, 65, drew other headlines - and sympathy - when he was accused of involvement in his wife Camille's death in 2001. His name was not cleared until a 2003 inquest when it became accepted that her death resulted from drug addiction and depression, triggered by the loss of seven-year-old son Jamie in a road accident in 1999.
In recent years, Barry Cox's business ventures have focused increasingly on property. Having seen the phenomenal rise of buy-to-let among property-besotted Britons in 2007, he considered buying Moore's thriving Inside Track for £120m. The deal foundered, but the two men stayed in touch.
Now Cox reckons Moore's marketing model could help sell the Lavagnac properties to well-off Britons for between £500,000 and £1,500,000 each.
For Moore, who divides his time between Geneva and his £3m villa in Marbella, the joint venture would bring financial benefits. It also offers the chance to restore his reputation through an association with Cox.
'Jim's machine is still there and his brain is still there,' Cox told Financial Mail. Moore told us: 'Property remains an amazingly attractive asset and my role will be to help investors access the best opportunities in the best possible ways.'
A key part of the sales promotion will be the fact that investors can effectively buy the homes 'for nothing' using a complex and potentially risky French tax loophole (see below). Moore, who pioneered the concept of buying UK new-build properties without a deposit by negotiating apparent discounts with developers, is a master at such promotion.
What a site: The planned luxurious homes are to be situated in the picturesque Languedoc region
He has bought the right to use the marketing database of his former businesses and is confident his old clients will be interested. This is despite the fact that many claim to have been ruined by his property recommendations and that several threaten litigation.
This is not the only reason why the Cox brothers, who have spent years winning the support of French authorities and forming allegiances with major businesses such as hotel group Marriott and France's Banque Populaire, may rue their association with the former high priest of buy-to-let. It is likely that liquidators of Inside Track and sister company Instant Access Properties will investigate dividend payments made to Moore's trusts before the firms' failures. And Revenue & Customs is believed to have ongoing tax investigations.
THE DEAL: How it's supposed to work... and the big risks you take
The deal uses a well-known French tax break applied to holiday properties in tourist areas. The French introduced this break to encourage tourism.
In essence, buyers lease their properties to a management agent (often the scheme's developer) for an agreed term of up to 20 years. The agent then lets it. This qualifies for a rebate of French VAT - just under 20% - which effectively knocks a fifth off the price. In the case of the Lavagnac scheme, the rebate would form the deposit required by the mortgage lender.
In the money: Barry Cox's wealth comes from successes in the restaurant industry
The mortgage would then make up the remainder of the price, meaning the buyer pays 'nothing', bar transaction fees. Rent deriving from the property would hopefully cover mortgage payments for the agreed term.
In practice these deals can be far more complex. Buyers usually have to put down a cash deposit ahead of construction, to be returned on completion as part of the tax break. So there is a risk of the development failing or not being finished to spec.
Bigger risks centre on the details of the lease. The terms will outline guarantees applying to rental income, if any, details of communal charges and numerous restrictions --including those applying when the mortgage has been paid off. Simon Conn, the UK's leading broker of mortgages on French properties, warns: 'With leaseback you are contracted for a set period.
'You have to make certain of what you are tied into, in terms of commitments to management companies, and restrictions that may apply at the end of the lease.
'Your own use of the property may be highly restricted.'
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More first-time buyers are skipping flats to leapfrog up the property ladder by buying smaller family houses Analysis from Zoopla found that two thirds of those looking to buy their first homes are seeking houses rather than flats.
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11 Reasons Why Cleveland Is Totally Underrated
By Bradley Foster Published On 08/21/2015
Flickr/Brian Schuster
Why is Thrillist coming to Cleveland? To eat pierogis and go to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, obviously. But also because we can't wait to tell the rest of the world about all the sweet stuff there is to eat, drink, and do in this criminally underrated city. Wait, why is the Sixth City so underrated, you ask? Well, there are at least 11 reasons...
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1. Cleveland has foods no one else has heard of!
Two words: Polish Boy. When other cities hear about this gloriously messy combination of kielbasa, coleslaw, French fries, and barbecue sauce, they're gonna be sooooo jealous.
2. Its restaurant game is legitimately impressive...
Last year we went on a gluttonous 36-hour rampage though Cleveland, during which we walked the streets at all hours, hugged strangers, hit dive bars, markets, community gardens, beer gardens, and a ton of sweet restaurants. Oh, did we hit some great restaurants. Why wouldn't we come back here?!
3. ... Seriously, it's one of the most underrated food cities in America
At least according to some lifestyle site that rhymes with "illest" it is anyway.
Where the locals eat and drink in Cleveland
Flickr/Matt Shiffler Photography
4. Everyone loves an underdog
From ironically embracing the "Mistake by the Lake" nickname to its fanatic support of often-hapless sports teams, Cleveland wears its underdog status as a badge of honor. But hey, things are looking up: last year LeBron (of all people!) had half the country rooting for him to end the championship drought, and Kevin Costner somehow turned the seventh pick in the NFL draft into three really goo... wait, you mean that last part wasn't real?!
5. You can actually afford to live here
Hell, in supposedly cooler cities like New York, or San Francisco, or Seattle, or... err, you get the picture, people can barely afford to read Thrillist, and it's completely, totally, 100% free.
6. It's one of the best drinking cities in America
And all that cash you save on rent and stuff means you've got more to spend at all the breweries in Ohio City, or on cocktails at the Velvet Tango Room.
7. Superman is from Cleveland!
Well, kinda: just look for the plaque hanging on the fence outside of 10622 Kimberly Ave, where in 1932, 18-year-old Jerry Siegel invented the Man of Steel.
8. It's got its own style of BBQ
At least according to local super chef Michael Symon, who says that because ketchup comes from Pittsburgh (booo!), no true Clevelander should use a tomato-based BBQ sauce. That's why he uses mustard, and wants everyone else to as well.
9. It's the "Roller Coaster Capital of the World"
Well Cedar Point is, and yeah it's an hour away, but what are you gonna do... let Sandusky tell people IT'S the Roller Coaster Capitol of the World?!
10. There ain't no party like a Lake Erie party. Yes, really.
No kidding, the rest of the country has no idea what it's missing, from the aforementioned Cedar Point to South Bass Island, which made Thrillist's list of America's best party islands for some reason. And that reason is that we love swim-up bars, presumably.
11. Thrillist is coming
Be the first person you know to sign up for our FREE daily emails bringing you all the food/drink/fun stuff you can handle, because once the word gets out... um, nothing will really change, and it'll still be free, but still: sign up now!
Bradley Foster is a senior editor at Thrillist who LOVES Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, and has actually been to Cleveland... just don't ask for how long.
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The 12 best bars in Munich
You’re in Bavaria, so may be sick of beer already. These are the best bars in Munich for the good stuff in all its forms
By Eliza Apperly and Paul Wheatley | Posted: Thursday July 4 2019
With the world’s biggest beer festival, beer cellars galore and the best beer gardens on the planet, Munich has an enviable reputation for… well, yes, that drink we call beer. There is, however, so much more to the city’s bar scene than that.
The Bavarian capital has for centuries been a cultural powerhouse, and nowadays world-class art and design museums often come with quality restaurants and cafés – meaning visitors can take in a Kandinsky or Twombly followed by a glorious bev (or three). The last decade or so has also seen the emergence of a thriving gin scene, while several of the best hotels and bars in Munich are home to experimental mixologists whipping up dazzling creations. Basically, whether it’s for a local beer, a lush wine or a glitzy cocktail, you’re never too far away from a brilliant bar in this city – so if you need some direction, here’s where to start.
Drank somewhere on this list and loved it? Share it with the hashtag #TimeOutDrinkList. You can also find out more about how Time Out makes recommendations and reviews bars here.
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Photograph: A.T.Birkenholz/Die Goldene Bar
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Die Goldene Bar
The Goldene Bar at the Haus der Kunst museum is lovely inside and out, but particularly glorious in summer, when the terrace enjoys truly golden sundowner rays, as well as the occasional surfer heading up from the Eisbachwelle for a beer. Inside, the gilded wall maps are 1937 originals showing the origins of wines, spirits and tobacco around the world. Shimmering beneath the gorgeous modernist chandelier, they lend the interior a luxurious atmosphere, but it’s the relaxed, mixed crowd that makes the Goldene Bar such a favourite. Chief bartender Klaus St. Rainer is a particular fan of gin, which you’ll find in the signature Haus der Kunst cocktail (Tanqueray gin, Perrier Jouet champagne, lemon, sugar, gin and tonic foam, and Campari dust). A tip: every first Thursday of the month, the adjoining Haus der Kunst art museum has free entry from 6pm to 10pm, so you can enjoy some culture with your cocktails.
Photograph: Courtesy Zephyr Bar
In case you haven’t heard, German gin is a big deal these days, and Zephyr has a top selection, ranging from the local Duke Munich Dry Gin to Monkey 47 Schwarzwald, which boasts a whopping 47 infused botanicals from Germany’s Black Forest. With a deliberately stripped-back décor, this hit hangout near the River Isar saves the art for the cocktails themselves – and for the stunning cornucopia of fresh ingredients behind the bar. The menu changes regularly but never fails to delight with concoctions such as Hot but Cold 13 (Tanqueray gin, galangal, coconut, sesame, mango, green chilli). Zephyr is like a beautiful, trippy botanical garden, and nearly always packed. (If things get too busy, take a breather at the idiosyncratic Flushing Meadows Hotel around the corner; it has one of Munich’s best rooftop bars, with great views over Kirche St. Maximilian towards the Alps.)
Photograph: Courtesy Bar Garçon
Bar Garçon
It’s strictly stirred, not shaken at Bar Garçon, a neat little newcomer between Gärtnerplatz and Viktualienmarkt. Proprietor Mario trained as an architect and has brought his creative flair to much of the bar’s pared-down interior, including building the marble and wood bar. The bar is small, with predominantly stooling (though snag the coveted window seat if you can) and a fun, easy-going atmosphere. The tunes are disco and soul, and the menu is leather bound and laid-back, with exquisite variations on classics like the Negroni or Manhattan and homemade syrups and juices. There’s a good selection of wines, too. Note that true to many smaller German establishments, Bar Garçon is cash only.
Photograph: Courtesy Zum Wolf
Taking inspiration from ‘classic American cocktail bars and Southern-style juke joints’, Zum Wolf is more speakeasy than Bavarian beer cellar. Lit in a red glow, this modest bar is a popular spot for revellers in Glockenbach, a trendy quarter home to a sizeable LGBTQ+ community. Most of the spirits on offer are imported from Kentucky and Tennessee, while the cocktail list is succinct but full of delights. A few beers and wines are also available, while the soundtrack spans soul and blues from the ’50s and ’60s.
Photograph: Courtesy Schumann's
Schumann’s Bar
Charles Schumann is an institution not only in Munich but across Germany. By far the country’s most famous bartender, the suave 78-year old has also modelled for Comme des Garçons and Yamamoto, has produced cult tomes on mixology, and is the star of a recent documentary. His Odeonsplatz establishment has a handy location right by the Hofgarten and includes the main Schumann’s Bar (which transitions from restaurant to drinking hotspot around midnight) as well as the smaller Camparino next door, and the intimate Fleurs du Mal on the first floor. Each promises an excellent line-up of classic cocktails and an interior as smooth and elegant as the eponymous owner, from the wood finishes to the meticulously placed bottles of Campari. A bar renowned as an old-school journalist and artist hub, Schumann’s is packed with everyone from seasoned locals to schickimicki (read: snobby) party groups. Arrive earlier rather than later, or book a table so you can segue seamlessly from dinner to dirty Martini. Never want to leave? The illustrated Schumann’s Bar book includes some 500 cocktail recipes for you to bring Schumann’s style home.
Photograph: Courtesy The High
The High
Another recent addition to the Munich bar scene, The High has won a crowd of loyalists with its hip-hop beats, casual yet connoisseur crew and top-quality cocktails. Co-proprietor André started out at the acclaimed Zephyr Bar and has kept up the experimental mixology, bringing his know-how to such playful, fruity-and-kick combos as the Purple Haze (Gosling’s, falernum, rhubarb, cherry, lime and mate). The interior channels ’80s Miami and come rain, shine or thick winter snow, the aesthetic is pure sun and saturation: tropical plants, striped paper straws and drinks as orange and pink as a ride down Ocean Drive.
Bayerischer Hof Roof Terrace
The Bayersicher Hof is one of Germany’s most prestigious hotels. And in its Roof Terrace and Blue Spa Bar (across the sixth and seventh floors) it offers arguably the best bar views of the Munich cityscape. As befitting a top-notch hotel, a speciality here is the champagne breakfast, but there are also fabulous lunches, dinners and barbecues. The terrace is a great place to relax with a Bavarian beer, a fine wine or one of an array of cocktails (preferably after you’ve taken a swim in the pool). Locals and visitors alike head to the Bayerischer Hof for its range of bars and restaurants: Palais Keller serves Bavarian beer and the ground-floor Falk’s Bar, a survivor from war-time bombings, specialises in cocktails, including a range of champagne concoctions.
Photograph: Courtesy Bürgerhaus Glockenbachwerkstatt
Bars and pubs, Café bars
Bürgerhaus Glockenbachwerkstatt
If you fancy combining drinks with some live music or provocative ideas, check out the programme at Glockenbachwerkstatt, an exemplary community centre, crèche and kindergarten by day and one of the most interesting Munich hotspots by night. The café and bar space hosts events almost every evening, from poetry slams to blues nights to roundtables on gender marketing. Don’t expect fancy cocktails here – this is more of a no-frills and big-smiles Kneipe (pub) vibe. In summer, the Glockenbach’s beer garden is also open, creating a relaxed city-centre refuge from 5pm to 10pm. If you happen to be in Munich for a longer stretch, check out the Glockenbach’s excellent programme of courses ranging from African drumming to DIY bike care.
Photograph: Sébastien Launay/Flickr
Bars and pubs, Beer hall
Chinesischer Turm
The thought of being surrounded by 7,000 other guests may seem daunting, but it makes for one hell of an atmosphere. Plonked slap bang in the centre of the Englischer Garten, four square kilometres of rolling green hills and trees, Chinesischer Turm invites everybody to drink and dine in their ultimate beer garden. Visitors can combine a drink with a trip round the park’s neoclassical Monopteros (a small Greek temple open to the public) before nabbing a spot by the 18th-century wooden pagoda. Try the Stecklerfisch (grilled fish on a stick) and Schweinshaxn (roasted pork knuckle) while you’re there. Open from May to September.
Photograph: Courtesy Ella
Restaurants, Italian
‘Ella’ was the pet name Wassily Kandinsky gave to his friend and fellow artist Gabriele Münter, and this stylish ground-floor bar and restaurant in the 2013-opened wing of the Lenbachhaus Museum is the perfect spot for a pre- or post-Expressionism tipple. Once you’ve ticked off the world-class Blue Rider collection upstairs, kick back with a spritz at the luminous onyx bar or on the spacious terrace and enjoy top-notch views onto Munich’s neo-classical Königsplatz. The Norman Foster-designed space is all about light and warmth, with generous windows, blonde wood flooring and wall paintings by Munich-born artist Thomas Demand. While the museum’s collection focuses on German modernism, Ella’s quality wines have a German, French and Italian focus, while dishes put fresh twists on Italian classics.
Photograph: Courtesy Augustiner-Keller
Bars and pubs, Gastropubs
Augustiner-Keller
Another Munich institution, the Augustiner-Keller has been pouring foaming ales since 1812 and continues to win numerous awards for its fine Bavarian tradition and cuisine. There’s outdoor seating for 5,000 beneath the garden’s glorious chestnut trees, and plenty of warm interior rooms for colder days, including the atmospheric, vaulted-ceiling ‘keller’. The beer is stored in and served directly from giant wooden barrels and – Achtung! – is available in one-litre steins only. The noisy crowds can be a little daunting for first-timers, but just find a spot at one of the communal tables and you’ll soon be chinking glasses long into the night. Not sure what to order? Go with the Augustiner helles, a crisp, light lager and a classic Munich beer.
Pfälzer Residenz Weinstube
Neoclassical columns stretching up towards arched ceilings, tiled floors and large, inviting tables set the scene for a visit to the Pfälzer Residenz Weinstube. Located in the former royal residence complex of buildings bang in the city centre, this wine bar-restaurant is as grand as they come. Nevertheless, with space for 450 it’s actually more relaxed than first appears, and is equally appealing to both the wine connoisseur and casual guest. The 60,000 bottles in its cellars come from Germany’s Palatinate region (Pfalz, once part of Bavaria), which you can pair with simple meals ranging from bread and cheese to the region’s traditional Flammkuchen, a thin bread covered with crème fraîche, small chunks of bacon and onions baked in the onion.
Feeling peckish? Why not stock up here...
The best restaurants in Munich
When it comes to restaurants, Munich looks south – to the Alps, with hearty meals in quality and quantity, and to Italy, with an ever-growing number of addresses specialising in fresh Mediterranean dishes.
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Churchill: Endless lies about endless wars
Washington Post uncovers documents showing officials knew the war in Afghanistan couldn't be won
Chris Churchill
Dec. 9, 2019 Updated: Dec. 10, 2019 10:54 a.m.
1of57In this file photo taken on June 6, 2019, US soldiers look out over hillsides in Afghanistan. (Photo by THOMAS WATKINS/AFP via Getty Images)
2of57Texas Gov. George W. Bush is flanked by U.S. flags on stage at the Convention Center in Austin, Texas, on Sunday March 7, 1999. (AP Photo Harry Cabluck)
3of57FILE - In this Saturday, Aug. 1, 2015 file photo, an Afghan man reads a local newspaper with photos of the new leader of the Afghan Taliban, Mullah Akhtar Mansoor, center, and former leader Mullah Mohammad Omar who was declared dead, in Kabul, Afghanistan. Defying the fury of Afghanistan?'s government and warnings from Washington, Pakistani authorities appear to be turning a blind eye to a meeting of hundreds of Taliban followers in Quetta, Pakistan, near the Afghan border, aimed at resolving a dispute over the group?'s leadership following the death of one-eyed figurehead Mullah Mohammad Omar. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)
4of57Afghan security forces stand guard at the site of an attack at the main gate of International Hamed Karzai Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Aug. 10, 2015. An explosion on Monday at a busy roundabout near the entrance to Kabul's international airport that wounded at least seven people appears to have been caused by a suicide car bomb, officials said. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini)
5of57URBANA, IL - SEPTEMBER 07: Former President Barack Obama speaks to students at the University of Illinois where he accepted the Paul H. Douglas Award for Ethics in Government on September 7, 2018 in Urbana, Illinois. The award is an annual honor given by the university's Institute of Government and Public Affairs to recognize public officials who have made significant contributions in public service. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)
6of57Internally displaced persons prepare to relocate as U.S. planes and special forces begin an assault in northern Afghanistan in October of 2001. Photojournalist Joshua Trujillo traveled there for Hearst Newspapers in October of 2001 to cover the U.S. response to the terror attacks on the United States. These photos are being shared 10 years after the beginning of the U.S. response.
7of57Bombs from a U.S. B-52 kick off an assault against the Taliban in northern Afghanistan, hitting Taliban tank positions in this October 2001 photo.
8of57Afghan boys watch as U.S. Air Force planes fly overhead, dropping bombs on nearby Taliban tank positions, kicking off an assault against the Taliban.
9of57Young girls look in awe at foreigners in an Afghan market in October 2001.
10of57A 16 year-old Northern Alliance fighter casts a shadow on a bombed dormitory at a base near the front-lines with the Taliban.
11of57Northern Alliance commanders in Farkhar, Afghanistan meet to plan their next move as U.S. planes begin their assault on Taliban positions in this October 2001 photo.
12of57The strategic pass between Kunduz and Taloqan is seen through the sight of a tank in this October 2001 photo.
13of57Rajav Mohammad, 22, an engineering student from Pakistan and said by local Afghan commanders to be an al Qaeda fighter, sits calmly after being captured.
14of57Shawn, who could only give his first name, a U.S. Army 10th Mountain Division solider keeps watch over his post at Bagram Airfield north of Kabul. Shawn and other troops were among the first U.S. troops inserted into Afghanistan.
15of57A Northern Alliance cannon is fired toward a Taliban position in this October 2001 photo.
16of57A cow wanders through a cemetery near a Northern Alliance command center in Khoja Bahauddin.
17of57Local Afghan children wander around a vast cemetery near the front lines in Khoja Bahauddin.
18of57A Northern Alliance solider rests in a home in Maidan Shar after a skirmish with the Taliban while commanders hammered out the terms for the Taliban fighter's surrender.
19of57A Northern Alliance fighter walks behind a hill shielding him from Taliban artillery in this photo on October 7, 2001.
20of57Dr. Abdullah Abdullah, the acting Afghan foreign minister, answers questions about possible power sharing arrangements in the post-Taliban government during a meeting at the Kabul Intercontinental Hotel in this November 2001 photo.
21of57A Northern Alliance fighter crouches in a trench on the front line near Korogh, Afghanistan on October 12, 2001.
22of57Hakeem, 29, from Yang-i-Quala, Afghanistan, stands in the center of the Khoja Bahauddin Bazaar holding 25 kilos of heroin after he was caught by local authorities allegedly trying to smuggle the drugs. He was publicly shamed and then thrown into the back of a Russian jeep and driven off into the desert. He was later tracked to a local jail.
23of57Said Tarq prepares to leave the children's hospital in Kabul after doctors released him. Said, 1, was burned on his face during a bombing and doctors said there was little they could do to help him because fighting had limited the import of medical supplies. Photographed, November 2001.
24of57A northern Afghan town is seen from an anti-aircraft position.
25of57Men watch as U.S. Air Force B-52s begin a bombing run over northern Afghanistan. The Taliban retreated after two days of contiuous bombing from the U.S. planes, coordinated with a ground assault by Northern alliance troops.
26of57A fighter at the base of the Hindu Kush mountains in October 2001.
27of57Children in a ravaged Kabul neighborhood in November 2001. Decades of fighting reduced once lively neighborhoods and palaces to rubble.
28of57Safoullah, 26, a Northern Alliance solider, sits on the floor of a bunker while bullets fired by Taliban soldiers zip over his sanctuary in this October 14, 2001 photo.
29of57Pedestrians cross a bridge in the historic bazaar district in Kabul, Afghanistan. Much of the city's infrastructure crumbled after decades of fighting. Photographed November 20, 2001.
30of57An Afghan solider wipes his face after a day of front-line fighting.
31of57Hakeem, 29, from Yang-i-Quala, Afghanistan, is paraded through the center of the Khoja Bahauddin Bazaar holding 25 kilos of heroin after he was caught by local authorities allegedly trying to smuggle the drugs. He was publicly shamed and then thrown into the back of a Russian jeep and driven off into the desert. He was later tracked to a local jail.
32of57Internally displaced people move toward Taloqan after the Taliban lost control of the northern Afghan town in this November 2001 photo.
33of57A Mujahedin fighter stands near the ruins at Ai-Khanoum, a palace of Alexander the Great, in northern Afghanistan near the Tajikistan border. Archeologists in previous decades had worked to reconstruct the palace but when it ended up on the front lines during Afghanistan's internal power struggle it was again destroyed.
34of57A Mujahedin fighter prays with hundreds of other men at the Khoja Bahauddin Mosque in the northern Afghanistan town. Islam is an important part of daily life in Afghanistan. Photographed in October 2001.
35of57Nawab Ali finds a small melted flag in a desk in his burned and ransacked office in the U.S. embassy compound in Kabul, Afghanistan in this November 2001 photo. Protestors torched his office in September 2001. Taliban and al Qaeda fighters used part of the U.S. embassy compound as a sanctuary.
36of57A European journalist peers into Afghanistan near the international boundary with Tajikistan during a break in a convoy of international media into the war torn region in this October 2001 photo.
37of57Abdul Bakar, a worker for the Islamic State of Afghanistan, inventories military supplies that crossed the Panj River into northern Afghanistan from Tajikistan in October 2001. The supplies were marked as coming from Russia and stamped with the Russian flag.
38of57Women sit along a road leading to Kunduz from Taloqan in northern Afghanistan in this November 2001 photo.
39of57Two boys wrestle in the yard of a boy's school in Dasht-i-Qaleh while U.S. warplanes bomb targets about five miles away in this October 2001 photo.
40of57A photo of Ahmad Shah Massoud is displayed along a highway to Kabul in this November 2001 photo. Massoud was killed by al Qaeda operatives disguised as journalists just days before the September 11, 2001 attacks.
41of57Manzhah, 7, recites her letters at Yang-i-Qala School in northern Afghanistan in this October 2001 photo. Education of girls was banned in Taliban-held territory.
42of57Students in the Yang-i-Qala School in northern Afghanistan in this October 2001 photo. Education of girls was banned in Taliban-held territory.
43of57A boy carries a piece of cardboard that tumbled from the sky along with hundreds of humanitarian food rations in Northern Afghanistan. The food was dropped by U.S. Air Force planes near the Northern Alliance command center housing international journalists.
44of57Northern Alliance commander Hagi Shir Lam negotiates the final terms of a surrender of a pocket of possible Taliban resistance south of Kabul. The opposing forces, who had shelled Northern Alliance positions near the highway for at least three days, surrendered. Photographed in November, 2001.
45of57Fazulah Akmahad, 5, lays in a bed in the Children's hospital in Kabul while his mother Qandigullah comforts him in this November 2001 photo. Fazulah had a fever well past 106 and was experiencing convulsions from the extreme temperature. Doctors said he probably would not survive through the night.
46of57Abdullah Khan, an assistant to a local commander, listens to the local leaders in Kishim, Afghanistan in October 2001.
47of57A Northern Alliance fighter prays with tasbeeh Islamic prayer beads before going to the front lines in this October 2001 photo.
48of57A boy sits in his tent near Dasht-i-Qala in a camp for internally displaced people in this October 2001 photo.
49of57Kids fetch water from a well in Dasht-i-Qaleh, Afghanistan while U.S. warplanes bomb Taliban positions about 5 miles away in this November 2001 photo.
50of57People ride a camel across a river in northern Afghanistan.
51of57A Swedish journalist uses a satellite phone to file his story in remote northern Afghanistan.
52of57A palace in Kabul, destroyed during internal fighting among factions in the 1990s, sits in a wasteland in this December 2001 photo.
53of57Villagers in Dasht-i-Qaleh look skyward as U.S. Planes bomb targets in Taliban controlled territory across the Kokcha River in this October 2001 photo.
54of57A Mujahedin fighter holds his assault rifle with a loaded magazine on the front lines of fighting against the Taliban.
55of57Ammunition for a Russian T-54 tank lies on a hillside behind a firing position near Farkhar, Afghanistan in this October 2001 photo.
56of57A vulture, one of the few surviving animals in the Kabul Zoo, is shown in this November 2001 photo.
57of57Men look out over an Afghan valley from a fighting position in this October 2001 photo.
Impeachment hearings droned on yet again Monday in Washington, D.C., as Democrats pressed forward with a fight they know they can't win.
But the most important news of the day, by far, was found on the Washington Post's website, which offered up a trove of documents exposing that White House and military officials consistently lied about a war they knew couldn't be won.
The Bush and Obama administrations knowingly made false pronouncements about the war in Afghanistan, the newspaper found. They hid evidence showing that the war was a quagmire. They distorted statistics that didn't show what they wanted.
Read more: Confidential documents reveal U.S. officials failed to tell the truth about the war in Afghanistan
"Every data point was altered to present the best picture possible," said Bob Crowley, an Army colonel who served as a senior counterinsurgency adviser during Barack Obama's second term, according to the documents.
This is the real scandal of the day, of the year, of the decade, of the 21st century. The Afghanistan papers, as the Post is calling the documents, reveal dishonesty and corruption, stretching over two administrations, that is incomparably worse than what President Donald Trump did with Ukraine.
That's not to give Trump a pass. Pressing the Ukrainian government to investigate a political rival — Joe Biden — and withholding military aide was rotten and nefarious. It was stupid and amateurish. It was Trump being Trump.
But Americans, by and large, don't care all that much, and Democrats can't figure out why.
Here's one reason: Americans now expect that their presidents will lie to them. They expect corruption. Many prefer Trump's blatant lies to the sneaky lies of other politicians, because it seems like a more honest form of dishonesty.
When I talk to friends and family about impeachment, they say, "Well, they're all dishonest and corrupt. I'm sure other presidents have done worse."
How can anybody say they're wrong?
Certainly, the cost of the Ukrainian mess pales when compared to the massive, incalculable toll of the war in Afghanistan.
Roughly 2,400 Americans have died in Afghanistan — including 24-year-old Sgt. James Gregory Johnston of Tompkins County, who was killed in June by “wounds sustained from small arms fire,” according to the Department of Defense.
More than 20,000 Americans have been wounded in Afghanistan — after 18 years, the longest war in American history. Countless others are carrying hidden wounds.
Contact columnist Chris Churchill at cchurchill@timesunion.com or 518-454-5442.
An estimated $978 billion has been spent on the Afghanistan war effort, money that could have been put to good use here at home.
For what? What has the war accomplished?
Almost nothing.
"We didn't know what we were doing," Douglas Lute, a three-star Army general who was the Afghan "war czar" for the Bush and Obama administrations, said in 2015, the documents show.
Lute later added: "If the American people knew the magnitude of this dysfunction ... 2,400 lives lost. Who will say this is in vain?"
The documents are from a federal project called Lessons Learned that interviewed generals and officials with direct knowledge of the war. The officials assumed their words would never become public, but the Post says it won the release of the documents under the Freedom of Information Act after a three-year legal battle.
Many Americans long ago realized the war in Afghanistan was a mistake — it's an under-discussed reason Trump was elected — and polls show a majority of military veterans also believe the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were not worth fighting.
Now, we know that the people in charge, government and military officials, also knew the war was a mistake — yet pressed on regardless, year after bloody year, ignoring public opinion while attempting to put a positive spin on the carnage.
One unnamed National Security Official who was interviewed, according to the documents, reported constant pressure from the Obama White House to produce figures that showed the 2009 to 2011 troop surge was working, despite evidence otherwise.
Why would Obama, who had entered office promising to end the nation's role in Afghanistan, do such a thing? Could the 2012 election have had something to do with it?
Remember that the next time you flip on an impeachment hearing and hear a Democrat say it's unprecedented for a president to put personal political gain ahead of the national interest.
Remember the war in Afghanistan when somebody wonders why Americans have grown so cynical about their government.
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Churchill is one of the most well-known names, and faces, at the Times Union. His columns - published on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays - are shared heavily on social media and have won several awards. Churchill studied English and history at the University of Texas before beginning his journalism career at small weeklies in Maine, later working at the Biddeford Journal Tribune, Waterville Morning Sentinel and Kennebec Journal newspapers. He started at the Times Union as a business writer in 2007 and became a columnist in 2012.
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Donald Trump 'Muslim Ban' Oscar-Winning Director From Attending Academy Awards
Donald Trump's 'Muslim Ban' Keeping Oscar-Winning Director From Attending Academy Awards (Report)
7:00 PM PST -- A Federal judge just granted an emergency stay temporarily stopping Trump's "Muslim ban."
President Donald Trump's "Muslim ban" signed Friday is preventing Oscar-winning Iranian director Asghar Farhadi from attending this year's Academy Awards ... according to multiple reports.
Farhadi's "The Salesman" is nominated for Best Foreign Language film, but according to Trita Parsi --President of The National Iranian American Council -- Farhadi won't be let into the US for the February 26 ceremony.
It's worth noting -- it's unclear if Farhadi planned on attending this year's show -- but he was present in 2012 when his movie "A Separation" won the same category.
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Video of The Last Hunger Season Revisited
Bringing attention to global hunger, poverty, and malnutrition through powerful storytelling.
October 12, 2012 | By Roger Thurow
The Nutrition Dialogues
The most difficult conversations were about the malnourished children.
“When you, as a parent, see your child not eating enough to be satisfied, you are hurt, but you are not in a position to control the situation,” Zipporah Biketi told me when we first met in western Kenya last year. Her two-year-old son David was manifestly malnourished with a swollen belly, and he was plagued with a persistent cough from a weakened immune system. His sisters Cynthia and Tabitha were very thin.
David’s middle name was Wanjala; Tabitha’s was Nanjala. Those are the names (a male version and a female version) often given to children born during the annual hunger season known locally as the Wanjala – it is a time of profound deprivation, when the family has run out of food from the previous harvest and is still waiting for the next harvest to come in. David and Tabitha seemed trapped in the time of their birth.
Leonida Wanyama, another farmer I profile in my new book The Last Hunger Season, wore a pained expression when talking about four-year-old Dorcas, her youngest child. The toll of the hunger season fell most heavily on the littlest; Dorcas, Leonida worried, was quieter and sicker more often than she should be for her age.
From these women farmers, I learned that the deepest form of misery was to be a mother unable to silence the crying of a hungry child.
These conversations are painful, but they are so necessary as we move agricultural development and improved nutrition to the top of the international discussion. These are the central topics of ONE’s Thrive campaign. Producing more food and more nutritional food – they go hand in hand.
Over the course of last year, while reporting the book, I followed Zipporah’s progress. In 2010, she had enough money only to plant one-quarter of an acre; her meager harvest was barely two 90-kilogram bags of corn. It lasted only a couple of months; her Wanjala stretched on for nine or ten months.
In 2011, she became a member of the social enterprise organization One Acre Fund, which now works with more than 130,000 farmers in several African countries. One Acre provides access to the essential elements of farming – seed, soil nutrients, field training and micro-financing to pay for it all – that had for so long been beyond the reach of small-holder farmers. With these materials, Zipporah was able to plant a full acre of corn, and her harvest multiplied 10-fold, to 20 bags. It was wealth beyond her imagination.
Inspired by the leap in production of her staple crop, she turned her attention to improving the nutrition of her family. She was able to afford seeds and tiny amounts of fertilizer for a second planting season of diversified crops on her one acre: beans, peas, kale, sweet potatoes, peanuts. By the end of the year, with the Wanjala defeated, little David’s cough was largely gone and his malnutrition was abating. Zipporah’s family was moving from merely surviving to robustly thriving.
Over the past couple of weeks we’ve heard much talk about agricultural development and nutrition at the United Nations General Assembly and the Clinton Global Initiative. This in itself is progress – though perhaps not as dramatic as the improvements on the farms of Western Kenya. For so long, agriculture and nutrition were rarely heard in the top-level dialogues on international development.
“Food Security is now at the top of our national and foreign policy agendas, as well as that of so many other nations in the world, because we understand it is a humanitarian and moral imperative, but it also directly relates to global security and stability,” Secretary of State Hillary Clinton proclaimed at a UN event featuring the Obama administration’s Feed the Future initiative, which has at its very core creating opportunities for farmers like Zipporah and Leonida. She continued: “I’ve seen in my travels how increased investments in agriculture and nutrition are paying off in rising prosperity, healthier children, better markets, and stronger communities.”
The movement to grow more and better food is itself growing, presenting a great opportunity for whoever wins next month’s elections to keep expanding. Now is not the time to slow down or retreat on the agriculture and nutrition front. But to move full steam ahead.
May 13, 2014 | By Roger Thurow
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In this tiny village in northern Uganda, Esther Okwir heard something she could barely believe: Her child could be the country’s president one day.
March 25, 2014 | By Roger Thurow
Standing Tall in History
Norman Borlaug now stands in Statuary Hall at the US Capitol, a man still at work. He stands in a stylized field of wheat, hat on his head, sleeves rolled up, notebook in his hand, a researcher for the ages.
Guest Commentary - Why the First 1,000 Days Matter
Every mother has a story about the beginnings of her child’s life. Many of them are joyful, some are heartbreaking, but all of them are important. And almost all of them will have at least one thing in common: the desire to give their child the absolute best start to life.
March 3, 2014 | By Roger Thurow
Go(a)t Milk? – Part II
A goat? Diego Sarat scratched his head. What’s a goat?
January 28, 2014 | By Roger Thurow
Gimme Nutrition
How the International Rabbits helped Guatemala reach the top of the Hunger and Nutrition Commitment Index
Smallholder Financing: Meeting Demand Between Harvests
For smallholder farms—usually those supporting a single family—expenses come early in the season before the planting while income arrives only several months later with the harvest. How, then, can these farmers access the cash they need to plant their crops and, more importantly, to survive between harvests?
Roger Thurow in The Economist
Roger Thurow discusses how smallholder farmers can move beyond subsistence in The Economist article, "Empowering Smallholder Farmers."
December 20, 2013 | By Roger Thurow
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A Q&A with Roger Thurow.
November 22, 2013 | By Roger Thurow
The Dreams of New Mothers
The dreams of new mothers are similar all around the world. Some of the details may vary at the edges, but at the center is a good education.
How smallholders can grow ‘from merely surviving to robustly thriving’
Although they have been largely neglected during the past several decades, Africa’s smallholder farmers hold the potential not only to transform their own lives, but also the world food supply.
Guest Commentary - Go(a)t Milk?
To the unassuming observer, the Guatemalan Quiché highlands are a breathtaking sight of lush, rolling hills and quaint mountaintop villages.
Africa's Good News
“When farmers like me put on more effort and work hard, keep our minds on farming,” Rasoa says, “I think Africa will have enough food and it can come up with assisting other countries.”
October 8, 2013 | By Roger Thurow
A Global Conversation: Role of Nutrition in Maternal and Infant Health
For all the scientific breakthroughs and high-tech communication advances, simple gatherings on a veranda or under a shade tree remain among the most effective ways to spread the word about the importance of good nutrition in improving maternal and infant health.
September 12, 2013 | By Roger Thurow
From Hoop Dreams to Hoop Houses
At one notorious intersection of the concrete city, hoop dreams have given way to hoop houses. Basketball has been replaced by baskets full of vegetables.
August 15, 2013 | By Roger Thurow
Guatemalan Children: Problems with Parasites
It was a good day at the Primeros Pasos clinic when a kindergarten class from the Tierra Colorada Baja school came for their annual checkup and health lesson.
Digital Preview of The First 1,000 Days
In his new book, The First 1,000 Days, Council senior fellow Roger Thurow illuminates the 1,000 Days initiative to end early childhood malnutrition through the compelling stories of new mothers in Uganda, India, Guatemala, and Chicago. Get a first-look at photos and stories from the book in this new web interactive.
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The First 1,000 Days
Roger Thurow’s book will tell the story of the vital importance of proper nutrition and health care in the 1,000 days window from the beginning of a woman’s pregnancy to her child’s second birthday.
The 1,000 days period is the crucial period of development, when malnutrition can have severe life-long impacts on the individual, the family and society as a whole. Nutritional deficiencies that occur during this time are often overlooked, resulting in a hidden hunger. It is a problem of great human and economic dimensions, impacting rich and poor countries alike.
The Last Hunger Season
In The Last Hunger Season, the intimate dramas of the farmers' lives unfold amidst growing awareness that to feed the world's growing population, food production must double by 2050. How will the farmers, Africa, and a hungrier world deal with issues of water usage, land ownership, foreign investment, corruption, GMO's, the changing role of women, and the politics of foreign aid?
Roger Thurow and Scott Kilman, award-winning writers on Africa, development, and agriculture, see famine as the result of bad policies spanning the political spectrum. In this compelling investigative narrative, they explain through vivid human stories how the agricultural revolutions that transformed Asia and Latin America stopped short in Africa, and how our sometimes well-intentioned strategies—alternating with ignorance and neglect—have conspired to keep the world’s poorest people hungry and unable to feed themselves.
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Educational Mission Statement
Through the shared ethics and knowledge of parents and educators, The Circle School cultivates a thriving and compassionate community while individualizing education, fostering a lifelong love of learning, and providing the confidence and leadership skills needed to become impactful citizens of the world.
The Circle School is committed to the development of the whole child by cultivating the body, mind, heart, and spirit. Through its curriculum, teaching styles, and programs, our environment:
Introduces children to the wisdom of the ages and diverse cultures
Encourages children to develop and express their own creativity
Guides children in developing open minds
Fosters the development of creative leadership skills through exploring novel methods
Teaches respectful conflict resolution.
The Seven Fundamental Skills
By Isabeth Bakke Hardy
Imagination: Goal --- to develop an imagination that is rich and well founded on nature and culture.
Observation: Goal --- to develop the ability to observe and explore and put observations into order and to develop an appreciation for patterns and relationships.
Creative Thinking: Goal --- to develop memory, attention, concentration, basic concepts, logic, and the qualities of clarity, broadness, originality, and openness.
Cooperation: Consider cooperation as the science of life. Goal --- to develop the ability to work for the joy of it and do so in harmony with others; to develop a sense of and feeling for the common good; to develop all aspects of communication including language arts skills, listening skills, music, art, etc.
Discernment: Goal --- to develop the ability to interpret findings critically and to develop the ability to see, hear, and sense subtle differences.
Living Ethics: Goal --- to develop a simple code of conduct and use it to live and interact with others.
A Sense of Beauty: Goal – to develop an appreciation for beauty in all forms.
The Circle School does not issue grades. Each teacher makes assessments based on observations with input from other teachers received during weekly staff meetings and throughout the year. Each student will be discussed within the faculty meetings several times a year. Along with the teacher’s personal observations, educational benchmarks from Core Knowledge and the Seven Fundamental Skills propounded by the school's founder, Isabeth Hardy, (referenced in the section below) serve as guidance for our assessments.
At least three times a year, parents and teachers meet formally to assess progress. The first of these meetings, the Goal Setting conference, takes place during the first semester and serves as an opportunity for the child’s family and teacher to agree upon expectations and goals.
Throughout the year, student activities will be documented and kept in a portfolio of ongoing classroom work. Parents are encouraged to review student work. Parents are welcome to schedule meetings with teachers throughout the school year to discuss progress in addition to the goal-setting and narrative meetings.
General Daily Schedule
7:30 a.m. School Opens
8:20 a.m. School Begins
8:30 a.m. Morning Circle
8:45/9:00 a.m. Main Day: Teachers post detailed schedules in their rooms, including times for:
Snack & Lunch
Specials classes
Teachers conference times.
3:20 Afternoon Circle
3:30 Parent pick-up time
4:00 After-School Program Begins
6:00 School Closes
Morning and Afternoon Circle
The Circle School is named for our morning and afternoon circles when the entire school gathers to hear oral folk stories from around the world. These stories not only provide students an unique opportunity to enjoy and learn tales from around the world, but also build numerous academic skills, such as memory retention, literary analysis and comprehension, public speaking, and others. These stories also serve as a jumping off point for many of the lessons that each class engages in weekly.
Each day begins with a child ringing the bells after the the school community gathers in a Circle. The building of that Circle strengthens the solidity and wholeness of the community. We create a ring of peace and find our quiet.
The same story is orally told Monday through Friday. After the story, songs are sung, announcements are made, and, on Fridays, birthdays are celebrated. Finally, Mother Earth is placed in our midst by the child who called the community to the circle with the bells. In unison, we intone our own version of an ancient chant:
There is peace before me
There is peace behind me
There is peace below me
There is peace above me
There is peace all around me and within me.
Morning Circle is itself a lesson. By practicing the discipline of Morning Circle, we promote the process of peace and teach our children to do the same. It is the foundation and wellspring of the integrated curriculum at The Circle School. Stories are physiologically integral to the mental development of each child. Children need stories, rich and deep with shared symbols, to chew on and sharpen their wisdom teeth.
We honor stories coming from the oral tradition and the indigenous cultures that they represent. Rather than being quaint curiosities from forgotten times, the stories are the tried and true building blocks of intelligence. They echo what it means to be human. It is this school’s hope that they also be the building blocks of Peace. We hear a human voice, see human mannerisms in 3-D and real time, and our experience is totally interactive. The listener is a part of the telling, and both the listener and the teller are part of a shared environment.
The Story Cycle
The story cycle follows two main patterns year after year. While the patterns remain the same, the particular stories that are told from year to year change and so certain specific emphasis change also.
Pattern #1: We begin each year in the macrocosm of all creation and throughout the fall will gradually make our way down to earth. In the spring, we will continue to narrow our focus through communities and neighborhoods until we arrive at the individual self in May.
Pattern #2: We take a trip around the world. We always begin with North America, focusing especially on Native American myths and legends in September and October. We typically move to real life heroes and heroines of the New World in November, and then on to the various Festivals of Light from many cultures in December. In the spring, we will go from continent to continent about every three or four weeks.
Whenever we can, we may take a brief detour to highlight a particular holiday (such as Diez y Seis de Septiembre, Halloween, or Valentine’s Day). Sometimes, but not always, this is done during Afternoon Circle, which tends to be less formal than our Morning Circle.
The Circle School Song
By Melissa Javors
Circle of hands, circle of hearts,
This is how the new day starts.
Circle of earth, circle of sky,
Sun and moon and stars.
A tale to tell, a song to sing,
We find our roots and try our wings,
The rainbow dream, the golden rule,
Teaching peace, The Circle School.
Circle of time, circle of trust,
A world that grows in each of us.
Circle of family, circle of friends,
A great wide world to mend.
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“Fuck The Dodgers”
Moldova tips me off, a place that has no business in this midterm. It takes fifteen minutes, typically, to grade a community college essay, but telltale words make me stop to process my inkling of gut wrongness.
I don’t even know if Moldova is a current sovereign state or a former commonwealth, like Yugoslavia, but that’s inconsequential. Students were instructed to source ideas and examples from the textbook alone. Tunisia, Egypt, Morocco, and India turn up in its articles about social media and democracy. Moldova doesn’t.
I fear the student body takes democratic values for granted. Full course loads, jobs, ICE, and health crises are what this population loses sleep over, not whether foreign rulers or the U.S. Fed uses technology to restrict citizens’ rights. But the point of the assigned readings is that we all should beware of government machination and not get distracted, lest we lose ground and are left with regret.
A motorcycle growls through the curve in my street. My mind has strayed. Someone else contemplating this grading predicament might float the possibility that my midterm writer spotted Moldova in an article footnote or aside. Granted, we professors can fail to notice every single detail. Fair educators give students the benefit of the doubt and don’t jump to unfounded conclusions.
My conclusion, however, is founded—on meticulous study of the instructional materials. Moldova is an outlier. Case closed. Because if I, someone captivated by distant regions and place names, had come across “Moldova” in print, I’d do a search. Or ask Siri. The name drips with mystery and intrigue. Mol. Do. Va. You don’t forget Moldova.
My eyes drop back to the sentence in question. More nuanced and word-smithed than typical freshman writing, its originality requires confirmation.
Yet Google proves un-originality. The passage appears verbatim on culturaldiplomacy.org, in reference to Moldova as a nation where a “Twitter revolution” has taken place. The factoid corroborates my theme about the democratizing power of social media. Even so, copying unapproved internet verbiage is taboo. The syllabus, Academic Honesty statement, and college catalogue all contain No Cheating commandments. My essay prompts, including the midterm, warn: “Content detected from prohibited sources will be grounds for a grade of zero.” Conscious students know the drill.
Then where has Moldova come from? Plagiarism.
The whole sentence is plagiarized. Like a rat infestation, where there’s one, more are bound to be found. The next two paragraphs are studded with well-turned locutions easily tracked to theatlantic.com.
After so many dictates against it, such piracy could never be perceived as allowable. No matter how sophisticated The Atlantic is as a source, hanging ripped-off information out to dry uncited is a student’s lost-cause ploy.
Moldova, in Eastern Europe, once part of Romania, Ukraine, and the Soviet Union, today is an independent republic. Member of the World Trade Organization and United Nations. Population 3.5 million. The national sport is a form of wrestling called trinta.
The midterm counterfeiter, Erik Liner (not his real name), looks like a wrestler with bulked shoulders and dense arms poised for throw downs. I point my pencil tip next to his typed name and inscribe his grade: 0/150. Keeping to policy and principle.
Zero isn’t the transgression’s end point. First-time offenders are allotted a do-over opportunity. My goal isn’t to be draconian. Turning a mistake in judgment into a teachable moment is preferable. Should I decide on disciplinary action as well, the Dean of Students will administer it. Alternately, I can put the student’s peccadillo to bed in-house.
Erik Liner has succeeded in re-casting himself as a miscreant, someone I’ll soon refer to (though never on campus) as The Plagiarist. A young man asking to be tangled with and scrutinized. When I think back over the past weeks, signs were there of this fellow’s shall we say ‘personality misgovernment.’ Shades of narcissism, rebelliousness against authority, disruptiveness. But having raised sons, I know the feistiness of young males. So far The Plagiarist has seemed like someone not impossible to oversee and tap the potential of.
I peruse the next midterm in my pile to see if it explains the difference between tech apps used to further political freedom movements or instead to enable oppressors. It doesn’t, nor how internet companies watch, track, data-mine, and target users, even get people identified or jailed.
By contrast, The Plagiarist legitimately comprehended the threat and the need to take good care of freedom. Then why did he brazenly cheat?
His angle baffles me.
Back on Day One of the semester, Erik showed his hand by raising it early into my low-down on attendance and other classroom business. Seated in the middle row, posture exemplary, he smiled with teeth, a good sign. I established eye contact.
“Yes,” I said, “a question?” Clarification on syllabus items assures detail-oriented students and helps others as well.
“Actually, a suggestion,” he said. Notably Caucasian in a predominantly Latinx, African American, and Asian campus mix, the twenty-something male gestured at some of his cohorts. “Why don’t we take a break to go around the room and introduce ourselves?”
My teaching practice welcomes student contributions, but getting interrupted a quarter of an hour into my remarks felt premature. What’s more, a student supplying pointers on how to break the ice could be drifting into my lane. Course enrollees tend, especially at first meetings, to act deferential and unoffensively reticent.
“Suuure,” I said, worried about betraying a soupçon of displeasure at my momentum being halted. Projecting a poker face isn’t my deftest skill.
But a thought calmed me, from a seminar by a college provost on the challenge of teaching Millennials: given Generation Y’s short attention spans and presumptions of being the center of attention, educators are obliged to work around the self-absorption without calling it out.
“Good idea,” I said. “After covering the basics, we’ll try to fit it in. Okay?”
Syllabus review occupied another half-hour. I couldn’t presume students would digest the information on their own. Globalization Q&A followed, participants volunteering thoughts about trans-nationalism affecting communications, culture, trade. I announced, “We’ll examine graffiti, the internet, and immigration through a global lens.”
The good posture Caucasian followed along. Beefy and taut, he kept silent, though I observed impatience brewing, a twitchiness in his mass. Not surprisingly, he raised his hand again and when called on said, “So, you’re not taking my suggestion?” His smile had turned forced. Maybe he was trying to get under my skin. Or he was a needy puppy slavering to showcase himself.
Another student tittered. I wondered if the semi-rude behavior was a challenge to my authority, a boundary crossed. Or an innocent attempt to make class time less hierarchical, more social?
The options: adopt his proposal or carry on with the plan from my bag of tricks. I usually ask everyone on the roster to reply to the roll call by answering a question rather than mumbling, “Here.” Last movie you saw. Favorite meal. A country you hope to visit—the perfect query on Day One of a global issues class.
We lacked the time for both my exercise and his, and a pissing match made no sense. Here was a student wanting to create a community of learners. Why not tolerate slight insurrection if it’s ultimately helpful?
“Let’s do that now,” I said. “What details should everyone share?”
Looking surprised, he mused aloud, “Name, of course. What you’re majoring in, where you come from…how we spend spare time. How’s that?”
“Fantastic. Start on the right.”
At his turn, Erik Liner stated his name and revealed he was born in Russia, lived in Israel a few years, and ended up in California for high school. No foreign accent, just a slight overweening air. Thinking of majoring in Business. Hobby—sports.
Listening to the others’ introductions after his, I secretly sized up Erik as a fusion of Russian bear, Israeli peacock, California badger. On the flip side, by virtue of being a Jew of Russian extraction, a member of my tribe on a campus where virtually no one else is, Erik Liner was automatically simpatico.
Coiled beneath my positivity that first day was an instinct to stay on guard.
The Dean of Students is a small but mighty administrator. I have several days to weigh whether to send The Plagiarist to her mightiness. Erik’s was the only identified plagiarism. In-class essays are harder to fudge than at-home writing. To sit in a room and dissemble under the instructor’s watchful eye takes premeditation…and gall.
My gradebook indicates a B-minus on Erik’s first essay about political graffiti. In recollection, nothing there stood out as fraudulent. I check my Comments archive: logic imprecise, discussion undeveloped. The low B may have struck an ego blow. Perhaps Erik plagiarized the next assignment to elicit a result better suited to his alpha self-image.
My memory drifts back to Erik’s arrival at the fluorescent word processing lab for the midterm. He’d halted in the aisle between banks of computer stations and with bushy-tailed bustle asked, “Okay to use notes?”
“Of course, Erik. Notes, textbook, dictionary, all fine.”
From a hind pocket he produced a folded piece of white paper. Week after week, he’d brimmed with questions and remarks in class, leaving me disinclined to suspect a cheat sheet. Quite the opposite, I was delighted to see prep notes. Students often arrive at a test cold and wing it. Many leaf helplessly through pristine textbooks kept free of annotations or highlights, to sell back at a greater value to the campus store at the course conclusion.
No opportunity arose to peek at The Plagiarist’s textbook during the exam, yet wariness about his “notes” set in. Students usually jot ideas in spiral notebooks or on Post-Its affixed into their reader. The folded paper struck me as irregular. But with the group settling at monitors to write, I brushed off misgivings.
I now re-assess Erik’s class participation: contributions frequently off the wall, only tangentially related to the article under discussion. His modus operandi was to receive speaking credit without generating productive input.
I contact the Dean. As I type my email, a small irony pops to mind, related to a point I unearthed about Moldova’s Twitter Revolution protest, which took the form of a Dignity and Truth movement. Erik Liner obviously didn’t get that memo.
This isn’t my first plagiarism rodeo by far, and when I inform cowboy Erik that I know he copied from illicit sources, he confesses. He takes his lumps with equanimity and books an appointment with Dean Shoemaker. His library privileges get frozen, and he’s barred from class until the Dean instructs him in proper comportment.
I’m startled when, returning to class two weeks later, he presents me an I’m Sorry letter: “I apologize to you but more importantly to myself,” it goes. “Thank you for catching me before I made the same mistake at an [sic] university level.”
The hand-printed note promises he will submit the online “plagerism” [sic] course certification of completion and asserts he’s glad “we nipped this in the butt [sic] early so it doesn’t continue in my future.”
In twenty-two years, no other plagiarist has put such thoughts in writing. Erik’s gesture cheers me. We arrange for what his note coined a “redue,” a makeup midterm to be written at his home. One stumbling block cleared.
Others invariably arise. As we read through the research assignment at the next class meeting, The Plagiarist squirms. He’d stalked in tardy with a smug demeanor, probably feeling on top of the heap again, his makeup midterm, ungraded yet, under his belt. Now, raising his hand, he literally quakes like a disgruntled badger.
“Erik?” I say.
“Is the research essay optional?”
“Optional?” I echo. “Definitely not.” My arms cross. The research assignment is the primary Student Learning Objective of the course. “The information sheet stated all written assignments are mandatory. Since I use a point system, it’s nearly impossible to pass the class if you receive a zero on one essay. The research project is worth one-quarter of the total points. As the saying goes, do the math.”
The daft suggestion of skipping a sizeable fraction of the curriculum is something to nip “in the butt.” If students chip away at performance obligations, then writing, research, reading, and thinking standards erode.
Joseph, another co-ed with charisma and intellectual promise, raises his hand. “To be clear,” he says, “you’re saying that if someone who’s doing well doesn’t have time to write a research paper, they won’t pass?”
I flash again on Erik and Joseph blowing into class late, chuckling like dingoes. “Joseph,” I say, my brows furrowing, “you’re receiving the assignment today. Everyone has sufficient time for the project if you stay on schedule. It’s a seven-page essay. Other 1A sections write ten and twelve pages.”
But Joseph Pruitt, African-American star of the journalism staff, teacher’s pet with an A average, shifts as if his chair is pierced with needles. A garbled protest escapes his lips. Venom has entered his frame of mind, injected from the reckless fang of Erik Liner.
The Brookings Institution homepage is the source of the alerting words in Erik’s midterm introduction: “With the help of social media, ordinary citizens can become agents of persuasion and leverage their personal network for whatever values, issue positions, or ideological stances they cherish.”
I swallow cheap Merlot at my desk at home. Scammers assume a teacher won’t notice a honed, professional passage amidst their humbler articulations. They don’t recognize the meticulous editing behind content released by think tanks like Brookings (or study-guide companies like Shmoop). Syntax and diction choices stand out starkly, the clash detectable.
Blatant plagiarism makes no sense except as a cry for help from someone asking to be caught and punished. Repeating the infraction, after going through the motions with the Dean of Students, the apology letter, the makeup exam… Shouldn’t Erik realize that not fooled once, I won’t be again? For him to do this comes off as a sickness. To believe he doesn’t have to follow rules departs from sanity. Does The Plagiarist want to be kept in line? Or did he assume he’d outfox me, wow me with pilfered smarts, and in return be showered with accolades?
Sniffing in outrage at getting preoccupied by a plagiarist’s motives instead of others’ hard work, I input a permanent zero for Erik. Going forward, he’ll have to bust his ass to compensate for the hit to his average. Write a research essay, endure another consultation with Dean Shoemaker. I’ll pull Erik aside before next week’s research workshop and let him know he’s been caught again.
Who wins, who loses? The college librarian, Jessie Farr, models research questions in terms of what’s at stake for who and why. The approach orients students to debating a side in a controversy and locating information that supports or counters. Jessie is demonstrating Gale databases with the query “do undocumented immigrants absorb social service funds?” when Erik enters, forty minutes late.
His tardiness insults the librarian and robs me of the chance to speak confidentially about his second bootlegged essay. I’d hoped to provide him an opening to abscond from the class for good before the workshop.
Instead he materializes long after the period’s start. Lateness produces toxic effects on pedagogical morale. It’s distracting and indicates contempt for the schedule and norms. Sauntering latecomers make punctual students feel like chumps.
Joseph Pruitt sits in the back row, morphing from go-getter to defeatist. I need to squash further demotivating behavior from Erik before it escalates but am forced to wait until this training ends. Behind his monitor Erik looks so happy I assume he has a sports app on his screen instead of the Newspaper Source Plus database the others are learning to use.
Later, after Jessie Farr and others exit, I beckon to Erik. “What were you thinking?” I ask, his midterm sequel visible in my fingers.
“I guess I wasn’t thinking,” he says.
Curious and anxious, I call Dean Shoemaker following her second meeting with Erik. “After a lengthy discussion,” she tells me, “Mr. Liner has decided to withdraw from your class.” End of conversation.
Although this denouement brings relief, I question if I handled the episode effectively. If what transpired was a showdown, I triumphed, although a go at each other was never my intention.
At my next office hour, Jorge, an ex-military student, and I outline his research argument about immigration and crime rates.
“Say,” I comment, “have you seen Joseph? He was absent today.” I know from Joseph’s “What’s my community” writing sample that he’s an Afghanistan vet.
“Naw,” Jorge says. “He hasn’t been around.”
“You armed services vets are some of the best students.”
“I ran into Erik a few days ago, on his way to meet the Dean.”
“Unfortunately, Erik dropped the class.”
“He made it sound like that could happen.”
“He was wearing a ‘Fuck the Dodgers’ tee-shirt.”
“To talk with the Dean?” I snort. Even though “fuck” is a centuries-old word, it reserves shock value to annoy, from the association with raw sexuality.
“Dude’s whacked out sometimes,” Jorge says.
“Not the best attire for the occasion.”
Jorge scratches his Hollister sweatshirt-clad chest and says, “You know Erik served in the Marines?”
“He never said so in class.”
“There’s four of us in class on the GI Bill. Or three, now.”
Erik did once tell me he’d been called out for rebelliousness in the past, which led me to conjecture he got expelled from a high school. I wonder if he was dishonorably discharged from military service.
In the midst of these local tribulations, Donald Trump gets elected president.
Lord knows why, but when one of the department chairs emails me about Spring book orders and enquires about my semester, I report my two-time midterm plagiarizer.
“It takes something (spunk? stupidity? entitlement?) to pull this with you twice!” she writes back, cc-ing the co-chair to document what could become a student grievance.
“Before he withdrew,” I reply, “the student asserted he didn’t want to write a research paper, an idea seized upon by another student, an editor on the newspaper. This second guy, a model student, threatened to ‘take my chances with a different instructor another semester.’ Am I supposed to let a top student who doesn’t turn in a research project flunk?”
“Joseph Pruitt?” the cc’d co-chair replies to me alone. “If that’s who you mean, he took my class last semester, and we’ve stayed friendly. Would you object to me talking to him?”
“Not at all,” I type back. “Want him to succeed!”
Soon Joseph does come to confide about going through a tumultuous breakup with the mother of his son. Though knocked “off his game,” he plans to catch up on his work and thanks me for having his back.
I’m comforted by his assurances. The thoughtful co-chair thanks me for caring about our students. I thank her for intervening.
Despite all the gratitude, deadline extensions, reminders and pleas, Joseph never produces a research essay. I can’t shake the perception that The Plagiarist is responsible for setting up a macho test of wills that roped Joseph in. It wouldn’t have taken much for someone of Joseph’s intellect to make a nominal stab at the research essay, get partial credit, and stop the fuss, but he opted out.
I calculate Joseph’s grade at the last moment before closing out the term’s duties. He’s done so well in every other element of the class that, with the 0/250 reckoned, his average squeaks to a concluding 70%. A scholar driven by curiosity and passion lands the lowest C.
Upholding benchmarks and rules doesn’t always feel good. But arbitrariness, or misrule, seems more noxious.
Academic thievery, the epidemic of failing to give credit where credit is due, doesn’t end when a new semester begins. The next alleged case involves two Chinese nationals, nineteen or twenty years old. They always sit together near the back and depart as a duo. If one is absent, the other is. They even have the same last name, but when asked about being cousins or brothers, Xiaoma Han says no. He explains in halting English with a Mandarin accent that they met at the college only recently.
“Quite a coincidence,” I comment.
Sheng Han speaks no English. Called on to furnish a short answer during discussion, he mangles a single word. For either of the Hans to complete a university-transferable writing class seems implausible. Yet the essays they turn in reflect an adroit command of written English. Xiaoma, I find out, is a recent immigrant to the U.S. Sheng is an International Student enrolled in a work-visa program. Their compositions are sprinkled with Chinglish errors that, at my most peevish, I postulate have been inserted by a contract writer-for-hire to lend calculated verisimilitude. I google their erudite strings of words yet don’t succeed in proving foul play.
In the aftermath of Erik Liner, my cynicism runs high, as does my allegiance to the American virtue of honesty. At one point, while returning graded essays, I comment to both Hans, “Your spoken English is not adequate for a discussion class.”
Sheng does not understand. Xiaoma slowly figures out my meaning and laughs in an embarrassed way.
“It makes me wonder,” I venture, “if you’re writing your own essays or getting help?” I smile and risk the obvious: “You haven’t plagiarized, have you?”
Xiaoma shifts from nodding agreeably to acting confounded. I wonder if the confusion is an arch performance, trickery employed in lieu of bald lying.
There’s no way to substantiate my skepticism. But bearing in mind The Plagiarist’s test-taking tricks, at the in-class midterm I keep an eye on the Hans. I set myself up not far behind their usual spot at the rear of the classroom, where there’s space to spread out paper, as if I’m getting a lot of work done, when my true agenda is keeping tabs.
Xiaoma’s and Sheng’s textbooks lie open beside their keyboards. They appear to flip pages and think hard. Eventually, they type. I witness no pasting in gambits. Of course, I’m three rows behind them in a huge room with wide aisles and glass walls. In this blanching light I can’t read their screens. Are they great actors, pretending to compose but in reality typing over and over a translated Chinese equivalent of ‘All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy’, and the second I blink, they will replace the gibberish with blocks of pre-formed essay from a google doc? Are they regurgitating line after line of memorized papers, authored by someone else? To know for sure, I would have to bring binoculars to essay tests and spy from a distance like a birdwatcher.
In the end, despite some of their efforts warranting B-range grades, the lack of verbal participation points drags both of the Hans down to course grades of C. Given my residual disbelief that they produced their own essays, the grades seem fair.
Perhaps they got the message. In the fullness of time, a different lesson occurred to me: to not reflexively assume inability in foreign students nor fall prey to suspicions akin to micro-aggression. The Mandarin speakers could be pidgin English savants, for all I know, who speak poorly but read and write with competence. High achieving students with speech hindrances have graced my rosters in the past.
Then again, despite my goal to trust students, the moral of the Hans’ code of conduct tale could indeed involve wrong-doing. A wit of my acquaintance, a businessman, once enunciated two main rules of criminality: 1) never commit more than one crime at a time; 2) if you commit a crime, don’t tell anyone. In other words, cheat smart. The same precept applies in academics.
Xiaoma and Sheng, if plagiarists, followed the faked essay rule-book better than clever Erik Liner. The Hans did not get caught red-handed or be forced to withdraw. They passed the class with the same grade Joseph Pruitt ended with. Does that make them success stories or scam artists? Perhaps these days there’s no difference.
Stamping out plagiarism is not an exact science, nor does it always conclude fairly. Two years later I’m still undecided about whether I over-reacted in handling Erik Liner’s delinquency. At least I tried what his apology letter thanked me for—stopping him from paying a conning habit forward.
I have a current offender who makes me fear some people are misplaced in systems, like colleges, that rely on integrity. Dalia Cantal’s recent plagiarism drama begins garden variety. She is one of three students in Critical Thinking Through Literature who, despite ample admonitions, plagiarize parts of their short story interpretations.
The culprits are asked to “See me in my office.” There, I present my findings and convey disappointment. Each plagiarist expresses shame and pledges to earn back my trust. Dalia tries to justify her transgression with excuses of fatigue and economic struggle. She, like the others, is offered the chance to submit a replacement essay on a different story.
Unlike the others, Dalia returns to me for help, but her concentration drifts.
“I need a B,” she tell me. Besides the original 0 on her essay submission, she has received a C+ on a poetry interpretation. Her frustration is palpable, her lips pursed. She seeks admittance into the college’s competitive nursing program.
“It’s hard because my brother and I support sick parents. He’s a cop. I have a job at a restaurant.”
“Commendable children,” I say. Dalia’s difficulty is not sheer time management; her writing and verbal expression expose academic skill deficiency. She has advanced to a critical thinking class without the reading, grammar, persistence and reasoning abilities she needs to thrive. “I’ll help every way I can. I’m here before and after class.”
“The problem is, I can’t come regularly because of my work hours,” she says.
“Try a drop-in peer tutor in the resource lab. They’re available early and late.”
Dalia and the other plagiarists turn in valid story interpretation rewrites. Dalia’s paper receives another C+, which, considering her grammar gaffs and lack of abstract thinking, is a generous evaluation.
On campus, the magnolia trees’ purple buds flop open into pale blossoms as the weeks pass. Dalia revisits my office to discuss her novel interpretation essay.
“My brother saw me reading Fahrenheit 451,” she says, holding the Bradbury. “He hates this book. He doesn’t trust it.”
“Maybe he hasn’t grasped the danger that lies in a society that bans book learning. What do you plan to write about?”
“Religion. Catholicism is a big part of my family. Not that I have a choice. I should write about religion. Church is my daily life.”
“Sounds good. Have you looked up the Biblical allusions? There are several besides the ones we went over.”
“I probably will. Also, I hired a tutor to get organized.”
“Why not use the free tutoring on campus?”
“I need someone who can work with me at night. This tutor is a family friend. She’s brilliant. She graduated from Brown.”
“Great. If you don’t mind saying, how much does your tutor charge?”
“$110 per hour.”
“Wow. I guess she’s good.”
I do freelance tutoring, though not for students at my school. I charge $70 an hour. Dalia might be getting bilked by the family friend, but I keep this concern to myself.
“Oh, she’s worth it,” Dalia says.
The analysis of religion in Fahrenheit 451 that Dalia turns in starts on shaky ground. There’s no evidence in the opening two pages of a hotshot Brown editor’s guiding insights, and, befuddled and chagrinned, I can’t isolate Dalia’s core points. On Page 3, however, the paper evolves in comprehensibility, quickly reading like something written by a pro.
Google verifies what I already know. After the first half of the essay in which Dalia tried to produce composition on the up and up, she threw in the towel and helped herself to readily available online content. I highlight the stolen passages with a yellow marker, scribble the source URL in the margin, and email Dalia about seeing me in office hours.
It’s not often I confirm a second plagiarism case. The last was Erik Liner. Most students, except those who find untraceable means to cheat, reform rather than endure another dose of humiliation. Dalia suffers the same fate as The Plagiarist for repeat offenders: a permanent zero. She sits across from me in my office, bristling with panic.
“What does this mean?” She blinks at the yellow highlights placed before her.
“You’ve lost points. It means a trip to the Dean. These days the Letters and Science Dean supervises plagiarism cases.” I write his email on a Post-It. “You can find him across the hall.”
“Any way I can still pass your class, if I do great on the last paper?”
“Let’s crunch the numbers.” I pull up the Learning Management System on the computer screen, click on Grades, scroll to Dalia’s row. I turn the monitor so she can see the total at the end of her line, a sum out of 850 possible points to date. “Let’s say, for argument’s sake, that you do well on the take-home final, which I hope is so, and receive a perfect 150. If we add 150 to your current total, you end with…” I input the digits and watch the system compute. “681 points. You need 700 to get a passing C. I sometimes make exceptions if a student has tried her best and finishes a few points below the cut-off, but your scenario equals a D.” Dalia breathes raggedly. “If you skip the final, and who would blame you, you can take an F in the class. It doesn’t matter, D or F. You still need to repeat 2B.”
“What about extra credit? Is that possible?”
“Not with one week left. I wish you’d thought this through before deciding to plagiarize again.” I want to cite ethicist Michael Josephson’s aphorism that “Honesty doesn’t always pay, but dishonesty always costs.” I resist sermonizing.
Dalia looks dazed. I wonder if she has told her brother about her misconduct. I imagine a cop storming into my office and demanding, service revolver drawn, that I pass his sister, I of the reprehensible gumption to assign Fahrenheit 451! I remember a day on campus around when Erik Liner dropped my class. As I got out of my car in the remote parking lot, a campus police officer stood on the walkway. I spoke with him as we strolled toward the quad.
“One of my students had to drop my class because he plagiarized twice, and even though he’s never done anything threatening, he has impulse control and anti-authority issues,” I said. “Do you mind walking me to my office? In case he’s angry and looking to confront me?”
“No problem,” the cop said.
Feeling a little foolish, I continued, “It’s too bad about this young man. He could be successful if he’d try. He took improper shortcuts instead. After consulting with Dean Shoemaker a few days ago, he decided to withdraw.”
“A big, friendly guy? White? I bet I saw who you mean outside the Dean’s office.”
“Might have been.”
“I liked that guy. We talked. Basketball guy. Interesting. Seemed like he had it all together.”
I smiled. Of course The Plagiarist could chat up a campus cop. “If only he trusted his own brain more.” I recalled the audacious “Fuck the Dodgers” attire Erik reputedly wore that day. Some time ago, I looked up the etymology of “fuck.” It derives from medieval German, ‘to hit’ or ‘move back and forth,’ perhaps denoting the sex act literally. “Was the student wearing a wacky logo tee-shirt when you saw him? I heard something like that.”
“I didn’t notice. Why?”
“Not important.”
“Fuck the Dodgers” is more along the lines of “fuck you” than a sexual barb. On a baseball shirt it’s a slur referring to the rivalry between the San Francisco Giants and the Western Division competing team from Los Angeles. According to Melissa Mohr in a Huffington Post feature, from its start, the word “fuck” might have meant what it conveys today, disapproval communicated as a grammatical intensifier. As in that fucking plagiarist.
The officer gave me his business card. “Call anytime you feel unsafe.”
I never called. Dalia, meanwhile, sister of a cop in a close-knit family, sits and breathes the new carpet off-gassing in my General Education Building office. She’s a different headache when it comes to serial breaches of academic honor.
“I plan to stay in the class,” she says, “to practice writing, even if I have to repeat it this summer. I want to be a better writer. I’ll need to be for work.”
“Yes, all the charting that nurses do. I’m happy to help you pick up skills.”
“Thank you. And maybe, who knows, I’ll ace the final and end up passing?”
I give her a look that means to say, without words: Are you as bad at calculating averages as you are at composition?
Her final essay is the last of the batch I grade at home. She appears to have taken a page out of Xiaoma Han’s and Sheng Han’s playbook. Although this eloquence is surely not hers, my time-consuming sleuthing cannot find online evidence of subterfuge. As if grading dozens of essays isn’t onus enough!
“Damn sneak,” I curse. I can’t give her paper the deserved zero. With strokes of the pencil I reward Dalia’s tutor with 132/150 points. B+. “Douche!”
My husband’s head pokes through my office doorway. In his hand is a baggie of bin food. “Hating on students?” He unknots the bag. “Unprofessional, Doc.”
“She plagiarized three times. Told me she hired a tutor to help pull her thoughts together, and guess who wrote this essay?”
“So flunk the douche.”
“She’s getting a D!”
“Don’t get excited. What does it matter? Want a cookie?”
“Give me two.”
We chew fig bars. My husband drops crumbs near his bare feet. My heart races as if shot through with accelerant. The student culture of rule-breaking and information appropriation frustrates me. I would have retired from teaching by now if we could afford it.
“It matters because she lied. She claims to value the ability to express herself, then pays a tutor $110 an hour to do her work. She plans to be a nurse! Who wants to be treated by a nurse who cheats and won’t learn? A sinner who calls herself a devout Catholic?”
“When did you get religious?”
“It’s ethics.”
“110 an hour? Money to burn.”
“She’s not rich. Plus, the product she bought is implausible, not her style. The scam’s too obvious.” I bite into my second cookie. “She should have hired me. I’d save her money and write an assignment a teacher like me would never suspect of plagiarism.”
“Ghost writing a student paper for yourself to grade? That’d be a racket.”
“When you put it that way…”
My husband dislodges a fig seed from between his teeth. “Do something like that, and you’d be so fired.”
“It was a joke.” I grin, defending my commitment to the noble teaching profession. “You know I would never ‘do something like that’.”
Instead, a month later, I write this.
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| Quakers drop a tough one in Providence as freshmen step up
Quakers drop a tough one in Providence as freshmen step up
Rothschild logs career-best 18 in place of injured Nelson-Henry
By Cole Jacobson 01/31/16 4:49am
A pair of buckets from freshman forward Max Rothschild helped spark an 11-2 run for Penn basketball against Princeton that eventually brought the Quakers within one of Princeton before falling, 72-71.
Credit: Nick Buchta
PROVIDENCE — Even before tipoff, Saturday night was already going pretty well for Brown basketball center Cedric Kuakumensah as the Ivy League held a brief ceremony to celebrate his surpassing former Dartmouth star Brian Gilpin as the conference’s career shot-blocking leader.
Once the opening whistle blew, however, things got even better for the two-time Ivy League Defensive Player of the Year.
Behind 26 points, eight rebounds and five blocks from the 6-foot-9 superstar, the Bears held off a feisty Penn squad in a battle of the final two winless Ancient Eight squads, taking an early lead and holding on for a wild 89-83 win.
“They had some older kids that have played with each other for a long time, so when it came to crunch time, they knew what they had to do,” said Penn coach Steve Donahue, whose Quakers have now lost 10 of their last 11 games against Division I foes. “We’re — with Antonio [Woods] and Darien [Nelson-Henry] not in there — obviously still trying to figure out where we’re trying to go.”
With Nelson-Henry absent due to a pre-existing ankle injury, the stage was set for Brown (6-12, 1-3 Ivy) to use Kuakumensah to ruthlessly attack Penn’s interior defense, but the opposite result panned out. Appearing energized by the pre-game festivities, Kuakumensah let it fly from long range early in the first half, connecting on three three-pointers in the game’s first four minutes to help the Bears jump out to an early 11-5 lead.
But Penn (6-11, 0-3) wouldn’t fall too far behind in its game of cat-and-mouse, as a breakout performance from reserve big man Max Rothschild allowed the Red and Blue to stay alive. As the Chicago native began to dominate on the offensive glass, he wound up with 12 first-half points en route to a career-high 18 overall, making up for the absences of the injured Nelson-Henry and Mike Auger — who injured his nose Friday night in New Haven.
With his inside efforts combined with four first-half three pointers from sophomore forward Sam Jones, Penn was able to claw back enough to briefly take the lead, although a pair of late J.R. Hobbie free throws for Brown had the Bears leading 46-45 going into the half.
“[Max] is a guy that really came of age today, going up against the Ivy League all-time leading shot blocker and taking it right to him, making a difference and competing on the defensive end,” Donahue said. “He came out of the gate really strong and then kind of hit the freshman wall, but in the last couple of weeks he’s played really well in practice, and obviously now, with Darien down, he’s huge.”
“[Darien] is the key to our team, so when he goes down, other people have to step up,” Rothschild added. “I tried to help us out and do that tonight.”
Behind a scoring burst from junior forward Matt Howard, who led Penn with 20 points despite a rough 8-for-16 performance from the foul line, the Quakers’ lead got as large as six points early in the second half, but the Bears soon responded with their own comeback.
Catalyzed by a Kuakumensah four-point play and a series of fine offensive plays from junior point guard Tavon Blackmon (who finished with 23 points and 10 assists), Brown went on a 22-6 run to briefly take a ten-point lead, wearing down the freshmen-heavy Quakers as both Rothschild and fellow center Dan Dwyer found themselves in foul trouble.
“After we played George Mason [in December], we were the second-least fouling team in the country, and we weren’t guarding,” Donahue said. “Not that we guarded well tonight, but we’re so young, guys are trying their hardest and that’s what happens; they overreact and try to do things maybe they can’t do.
“Honestly,” he added, “I feel this is the fourth or fifth game where we didn’t make foul shots in a game where I thought we outplayed the opponent.”
With the help of Howard’s consistent penetration and another strong shooting effort from freshman guard Jackson Donahue — who scored 17 points, including three three-pointers — the Quakers quickly clawed back into it despite not playing any seniors on the night.
A phenomenal assist from Howard to Donahue inside cut Brown’s lead to 78-77 with 4:30 remaining, and another dime from Howard to Rothschild put the Quakers on top 81-80 with under three minutes remaining.
“I can’t say enough about Matt Howard’s performance; I thought he was the best player on the floor,” coach Donahue said. “[As for Jackson,] I think people play him as a shooter so much ... but when the defenses chase him, suddenly he’s going to the rim and finding our bigs for a drop-off or finishing. He’s maturing as a player — I think he’s going to be a guard that is not just a shooter — and he’ll make decisions like you saw tonight.”
Penn, playing three freshmen for the majority of the night in Donahue, Rothschild and Silpe (five points, five rebounds, five assists), continued to battle, but the Quakers struggled to stop Brown’s veteran Big Three down the stretch. Kuakumensah, Blackmon and junior forward Steven Spieth — the younger brother of golf superstar Jordan — led a 13-for-24 three-point shooting effort by the Bears, who quickly seized control again.
A Donahue assist to Rothschild brought Penn to within 84-83 in the last minute, but Rothschild fouled out soon after, as Spieth (who finished with 19 points) hit a pair of clutch free throws to put Brown up 86-83 with 39 seconds remaining.
Penn got one last opportunity on offense, and Howard threw a phenomenal pass over two defenders to find an open Jones in the right corner.
But the sharpshooter’s attempt fell just short, as Brown secured the rebound and took care of business at the foul line to clinch its first Ancient Eight victory of the season.
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“I thought we got a good look on that last play — a great pass by Matty — but it just didn’t go,” coach Donahue said. “We played very hard, but Brown made a lot of shots, and we did not play great defense.”
Still winless in Ivy League play, the Quakers will return to the friendly confines of the Palestra next weekend, hosting Harvard and Dartmouth teams that will both be coming off their own respective 0-2 weekends. And although attrition has harmed the Quakers in more ways than previously thought conceivable, Saturday’s showing by the freshman class seems to be a silver lining in the program’s prospects moving forward.
“It feels nice [to have success], but we lost, so it’s not the best feeling,” Rothschild said. “We lost twice, but we’ll be sure to pick it up; we’ve got two at home next weekend, so we’re excited for that.”
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Singapore August exports surge on China shipments
Singapore’s non-oil domestic exports surged in August from a year earlier at the strongest pace in six months, led by solid shipments of electronics and robust sales to China.
Exports increased 17.0 per cent in August from a year earlier, data from the trade agency International Enterprise Singapore showed on Monday. This was the largest year-on-year increase since February.
It was also more than the 11.8 per cent increase predicted in a Reuters survey.
On a seasonally adjusted month-on-month basis, exports rose 4.5 per cent, exceeding the median forecast in the Reuters survey of a 3.1 per cent expansion.
Shipments to China soared 43.2 per cent from a year earlier, according to Reuters.
Electronics exports, a major driver of shipments in recent months, rose 21.3 per cent in August from a year earlier.
“Electronics once again proved to be the one of the most important drivers, which might raise concerns about the narrowness of the export story,” Robert Carnell, head of Asia-Pacific research for ING said.
The latest export data will help the Monetary Authority of Singapore justify keeping the policy band of the Singapore’s dollar’s nominal effective exchange rate unchanged at its policy decision due in October, rather than provide any cause for tightening, he added.
“If the good news continues, and is matched by some stronger consumer spending data, this should become a possibility for 2018,” Carnell said regarding possible policy tightening by the MAS.
Stronger global trade in general this year has also benefited Singapore, which boasts one of the world’s largest container ports and a global air cargo hub.
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S1-S3 Drama Club: ‘Blue Stockings’
Drama, Drama / Tuesday, March 19, 2019 S1-S3 Drama Club: ‘Blue Stockings’
1869. Girton College, Cambridge. The Girton girls study ferociously and match their male peers grade for grade. Yet, when the men graduate, the women leave with nothing but the stigma of being a 'blue stocking' - an unnatural, educated woman. They are denied degrees and go home unqualified, and with no chance of marriage.
Tess Moffat and her fellow first years are determined to win the right to graduate. But little do they anticipate the hurdles in their way: the distractions of love, the cruelty of the class divide or the strength of the opposition, who will do anything to stop them. The play follows them over one tumultuous academic year, in their fight to change the future of education.
The cast was led by Drama Club stalwart, Mairi McLeod, as the feisty and conflicted Tess Moffat who has to choose between education and love. Not only did Mairi execute a moving and thought-provoking performance, she also managed to ride a bicycle around the stage!
The female students were played by Anika Frame, Alayna Khatoon and Shreya Marshall, who ably tackled university-level Natural Science, as well as giving accomplished portrayals of young women struggling with the dilemmas of their day.
Noah Sarvesvaran, Edward Howat, Aimee Teale, Ben Henderson and Sol Waddell represented the male students, shocked and excited in equal measure by the presence of female students in their lecture theatre. After starring as Peter Pan in last year’s production, Noah led the male cast with aplomb and it was a pleasure to welcome Ben, Edward and Sol to the stage, as Drama Club newcomers.
A special mention must go to Aimee Teale, who took on one of the lead roles with less than two weeks to go: her performance was gripping and her impassioned monologue in Act 2 garnered a much deserved round of applause. These skilful performances were complemented by Eve Whitton as the Head of Girton College, Mia Huntley as Miss Blake, the suffragette lecturer to the girls, and Tom Salmon as Mr Banks, the inspiring lecturer from Trinity College.
The fantastic principal characters were ably supported by an ensemble of suffragettes, students and lecturers. Behind the scenes, Erin McIntyre designed the lighting, with Alexander Hendry on sound. Inspired by the message of the play, pupils raised over £100 for the Malala Fund, to help give all girls the opportunity to learn and lead.
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FOZ, Amer (a.k.a. FOZ, Amer Zuhair); DOB 11 Mar 1976; POB Homs, Syria; Gender Male; Passport O6O1O274747 (Syria) (individual) [SYRIA] (Linked To: ASM INTERNATIONAL TRADING, LLC).
FOZ, Husen (a.k.a. FOZ, Hasan; a.k.a. FOZ, Hosn Zuhair; a.k.a. FOZ, Hoson; a.k.a. FOZ, Housen; a.k.a. FOZ, Hussen), Meadows 1, Street 13, Villa 38, Dubai, United Arab Emirates; Adawai Area Rawdet Aleman Bld, 1st Floor, Damascus City, Syria; DOB 25 May 1981; POB Lattakia, Syria; nationality Syria; alt. nationality Saint Kitts and Nevis; citizen Turkey; alt. citizen Syria; Gender Female; Passport U08527769 (Turkey); alt. Passport RE0027450 (Syria); National ID No. 06010274768 (Syria) (individual) [SYRIA] (Linked To: ASM INTERNATIONAL TRADING, LLC).
FOZ, Samer (a.k.a. AL-FOUZ, Samer; a.k.a. FAWAZ, Samer; a.k.a. FAWZ, Samir; a.k.a. FOUZ, Samer; a.k.a. FOZ, Samer Zuhair; a.k.a. FOZ, Samir), Meadows 2, Street 3, Villa 5, Dubai, United Arab Emirates; DOB 20 May 1973; POB Latakia, Syria; nationality Syria; alt. nationality Turkey; alt. nationality Saint Kitts and Nevis; citizen Saint Kitts and Nevis; Gender Male; National ID No. 784197341865828 (Syria) (individual) [SYRIA].
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Are Phobos and Deimos Sailor Soldiers in Training?
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Sailor Mars with Phobos and Deimos in the background
From the moment that Phobos and Deimos first appeared in the series, I think that many fans got the sense that there was probably something deeper lurking within Rei’s bird companions. They had Mars-themed names, after all, and time and again we would find ourselves introduced to talking cats throughout Sailor Moon‘s run. So why not talking birds?
And yet, it took four long years before we ever learned any more about them… in the manga, at least.
Who are Phobos and Deimos really? What is their role in the series? And is it true that they’re also Sailor Soldiers in training?
Stick around, because today we’ll be taking a look at these questions and more as we discuss Sailor Mars’ feathered companions!
Phobos and Deimos in human form
To be completely and totally honest, I feel like Phobos and Deimos are a sign of how scattered and rushed the end of Sailor Moon was, and just one of the many loose ends that were opened up and then never answered.
Don’t get my wrong, I love Sailor Stars… but it opens up so many questions and provides answers to so few.
But let’s back up a bit and get started with the basics.
For the majority of the manga — and the entirety of the anime — there was actually nothing magical at all about Phobos and Deimos. They were simply two birds that hung around the Hikawa shrine that Rei looked after.
However, things start to get interesting once it’s revealed in the Dream arc that Rei’s feathered friends actually have pixie-like forms1 when they come to Rei’s rescue to give her the power of Super Sailor Mars.
From there, they fall out of the story for awhile until they reappear in Sailor Stars to face off against Sailor Lead Crow.2 During their confrontation, we learn that Phobos, Deimos, and Sailor Lead Crow all come from the same planet (Coronis) and that she had betrayed the rightful Sailor Coronis in order to steal her Sailor Crystal. Oh, and that she and/or Sailor Galaxia also destroyed the planet while they were at it. How rude!3
Though this whole exchange — from Phobos and Deimos making their appearance to their deaths — takes place over a mere five pages, there’s a lot to unpack here. After all, it basically tells us all that we’ll ever know about Rei’s celestial partners.
Read also: What Is Considered Canon In the Sailor Moon Universe?
The first thing worth mentioning is the fact that both Phobos and Deimos are depicted as small pixies (similar to a certain fairy made famous by Disney) while Sailor Lead Crow… well… isn’t. While we only get a small, single panel depicting Sailor Coronis, I’d say that it’s probably a safe bet that she’s also a normal-sized human.
Why is that? Glad you asked!
Sailor Coronis and Phobos & Deimos
Every other Sailor Soldier in the series is shown to be a normal human, though that’s hardly a deciding factor on its own. More importantly, Sailor Lead Crow is also a normal human, and I find it hard to believe that Galaxia would have changed her physical form as a Sailor Animamate, so my best guess is that Phobos and Deimos are simply a different species that lived on the same planet. After all, it’s not the first time that Ms. Takeuchi introduced fairies into the series.
Where things really get interesting in their exchange with Lead Crow, however, is when she mentions that the two are “soldiers in training.” This has caused untold amounts of speculation among Sailor Moon fans about how Phobos and Deimos were, a la Sailor ChibiMoon, training under Sailor Mars to become Sailor Soldiers, though unfortunately there’s really no basis for that in the original Japanese. It’s simply an issue that crops up in translation.
The word used here, 訓練兵 (kunrenhei45; military soldier in training), differs from the セーラー戦士 (sailor senshi)6 term that we’ve come to know and love, implying that they are simply your run-of-the-mill military soldiers/warriors. With the near universal use of the term Sailor Guardians now, I assume that this myth will slowly fall into obscurity as more fans are introduced to the modern translations.
Further hammering this point home is the fact that Lead Crow herself implies that she was a soldier in training along with them. She was jealous of how lucky they were to have been picked by the Princess of Mars and given their own moons,7 and boasts about how she ultimately reached even greater heights than Phobos and Deimos by killing Sailor Coronis and becoming a Sailor Soldier in her own right — something far greater than a mere partner to a princess.
Flies like a lead balloon
It’s unfortunate that we know so little about these two. I think that, had they been introduced to the story sooner, they could have added interesting dynamic to the series by showing readers a less Moon-centric point of view.
Read also: Does Every Object in Space Have a Sailor Senshi?
Though I didn’t touch on it here, I also wonder if there could be some connection between the fact that Phobos and Deimos come from outside the solar system, and Mars’ moons are likely not true moons, but captured asteroids.8 Obviously the asteroids themselves wouldn’t be from outside the solar system, but there is something unique about Mars’ situation compared to the other planets.
If you have any further thoughts or insight on the matter, I’d love to hear from you! Especially with regard to how Phobos and Deimos fit into the series, and where the story could have gone if they were given a bigger part. Let me know what you think down below!
See Act 36 of the original manga ↩
Feel free to read this in your best Stephanie Tanner impression ↩
See 訓練 (Jisho.org) ↩
See 兵士 (Jisho.org) ↩
See 戦士 (Jisho.org) ↩
The nuance here is a little unclear, though the implication is that Phobos and Deimos were given the moons that were already named Phobos and Deimos, which suggests that those were not their original names ↩
See Moons of Mars (Wikipedia) ↩
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3 thoughts on “Are Phobos and Deimos Sailor Soldiers in Training?”
Posted 2018-09-06 at 5:38 am by Diagnosed
Ah! Excellent break down!! I’m so glad this topic became its own article ^_~.
Posted 2018-09-08 at 3:22 am by MementoNepenthe
While they do seem to be fairy-sized in their Dream arc appearance, it’s harder to tell what size they are in Stars since we never see them share a panel with another character in the same perspective, so it’s possible they are regular human-sized there. It would be strange for them to be fairies instead of the same humanoid specie as everyone else on Coronis.
Also, since Lead Crow recognizes them as “Phobos” and “Deimos,” those are probably their given names, and Princess Mars likely named her planet’s moons after them, not the other way around. Phobos and Deimos also recognize Lead Crow as “Lead Crow,” likewise suggesting that as her given name, and, by extension, “Iron Mouse,” “Aluminum Seiren,” “Tin Nyanko,” and “Heavy Metal Papillon” as the remaining Animamates’ given names.
Posted 2018-09-11 at 3:38 pm by T. Mask
Re: their names, the manga explicitly states that they were given the moons “with those names.” So that means that either Phobos and Deimos were coincidentally given moons that had the same names as themselves, or that the two of them were renamed after the moons.
But in context, the reading doesn’t imply that the moons were named after them.
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EDITORIAL: Don’t muddy GSU Search
Published on March 3, 2010 under Grambling / GSU Search
Shreveport Times
Last week’s decision to pause the search for a president of Grambling State University risks confusing a process that doesn’t need any complications.
Rather than count as a blessing the presence of a stable interim president to help Grambling State navigate accreditation, budget and staffing challenges, the Grambling State University Presidential Search Committee used that as a reason to suspend the search. Less clear is why continuing the process interferes with or undermines Interim President Frank Pogue’s so far impressive efforts to stabilize a troubled campus.
If he’s becoming a candidate for the job, great. Pogue’s competency on the job will only enhance his stature.
He’s no stranger to the dynamics of being an interim president, having served in that role last year at Chicago State University. And because a thorough search could take months, why not keep pushing ahead?
Pogue, 71, a veteran educator who retired in 2007 after 11 years as president of Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, was touted at Friday’s meeting as a much-needed breath of fresh air in the wake of Horace Judson’s controversial five-year tenure. Those years were marked by struggles with vocal alumni groups who have, at times, had too much influence over the school. Of more concern were his strained relations with faculty and students. Those groups complained about Judson’s isolation and remote management style.
At Friday’s meeting, various committee members lauded Pogue, who only first stepped onto the campus Dec. 10. He was called a strong communicator who has made good hires and “changed the feeling on campus.”
But we think faculty representative Matthew Ware, who acknowledged being of “three minds” on the decision to suspend the search, hit on a key point.
“A lot of Grambling alums feel we have the leader we need,” he said at the meeting. “But we need a formal process because there are people of another mind, and there needs to be buy-in.”
Short-circuiting the search so early in the name of stability could put off those “people of another mind.” They’ll be needed when it’s time to build unity behind an eventual nominee.
In its vote Friday, the search committee also charged University of Louisiana System President Randy Moffett to come back with a detailed recommendation on how to move forward. Perhaps that should be to give Pogue a vote of confidence. Assure him the freedom to make necessary decisions to get Grambling State back on an even academic keel.
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Droughts, floods, crop failures, disrupted and displaced communities and impacted economies - the potential threats posed by climate change are significant and urgent. But while tackling climate change presents serious challenges, it also offers enormous opportunities.
Taking action on climate change is a necessity - but it’s also a chance to grow our business by responding to opportunities across our value chain.
We want to play our part in the global movement to create a low-carbon economy, so we’re increasing our use of renewable energy as we move towards becoming carbon positive in our operations by 2030. We’ve also set ourselves a science-based target* to halve the greenhouse gas (GHG) impacts of our products across their lifecycle by 2030.**
The GHG pillar of our Unilever Sustainable Living Plan (USLP) contributes to a number of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), primarily: Affordable and Clean Energy (SDG 7); Climate Action (SDG 13) and Life on Land (SDG 15).
We want low-carbon to become the new normal, so we’re taking action to reduce GHG emissions throughout our value chain.
Taking action across our value chain
Following the Paris Agreement, nearly 200 countries are pressing ahead with low-carbon reforms, helping to open around $23 trillion in opportunities for climate-smart investments by 2030. The key to transforming the current high-carbon infrastructure into a low-carbon one, is systems change.
The risks presented by climate change cross the boundaries between nations, continents, industries and societies. SDG 17 – partnerships for the goals – is critical to unlocking progress to the other 16 SDGs. Businesses, governments and citizens all have a role to play but fundamental to creating systems change is collaboration, which is why we’re prioritising advocacy and partnerships with others.
This has led us to work on issues ranging across our entire value chain, from combating deforestation and improving the carbon footprint of our agricultural supply chain, to designing more products with a lower GHG impact for people to use at home.
27% of our GHG footprint comes from raw materials for ingredients and packaging. Impacts of climate change on agriculture will be different in different parts of the world. An important step in our sustainable sourcing programme will be the launch in 2018 of the renewed Sustainable Agriculture Code, which has guidance on all aspects of Climate Smart Agriculture.
In the middle of our value chain are our own factories and sites - the parts of our business over which we have the greatest control. We've committed to becoming carbon positive in our operations by 2030. That means 100% of our energy will come from renewable sources - and we intend to directly support the generation of more renewable energy than we need for our own operations, making the surplus available to the markets and communities in which we operate.
Technology and innovation are playing a critical part in addressing climate change - and in opening up the opportunities for business that a low-carbon economy will bring. Over 60% of our GHG footprint occurs when consumers use our products in their homes. To reduce this, we’re using our knowledge and resources in innovation, and Research and Development, to bring people products they enjoy but which come with lower GHG impacts.
The Taskforce on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD)
A growing number of investors demand more information on how companies are addressing the effects of climate change, and we recognise the importance of disclosing climate-related risks and opportunities. Adopting the TCFD recommendations is an important step forward in enabling market forces to drive efficient allocation of capital and support a smooth transition to a low-carbon economy.
Within the scope of our business, climate change touches everything we do, and a wide range of our USLP activities address it. We’ve integrated climate-related disclosures throughout our Annual Report and Accounts 2017 and within the Reducing Environmental Impact sections - Greenhouse Gas, Water, Waste, and Sustainable Sourcing – of our Sustainable Living Report 2017.
Our pillar commitment is to halve the GHG impact of our products across their lifecycle by 2030. This commitment is a science-based target, which is in turn supported by our carbon positive science-based targets. These are defined as "in line with the level of decarbonisation required to keep the global temperature increase below 2°C compared to pre-industrial temperatures"*** - which underpins the Paris Agreement.
To understand the financial risks that climate change could have on our business, we’ve performed a high-level assessment of the impact of 2°C and 4°C global warming scenarios in 2030. We’ve identified the material impacts on Unilever’s business from each of these scenarios, based on existing internal and external data. We are taking action to address our climate change risks in line with the output from the scenario analysis, as well as benefiting from any opportunities these changes could present across our value chain.
The main impacts of the 2°C scenario:
Carbon pricing is introduced in key countries and hence there are increases in both manufacturing costs and the costs of raw materials such as dairy ingredients and the metals used in packaging.
Zero net deforestation requirements are introduced and a shift to sustainable agriculture puts pressure on agricultural production, raising the price of certain raw materials.
Chronic and acute water stress reduces agricultural productivity in some regions, raising prices of raw materials.
Increased frequency of extreme weather (storms and floods) causes increased incidence of disruption to our manufacturing and distribution networks.
Temperature increase and extreme weather events reduce economic activity and gross domestic product (GDP) growth, hence sales levels fall.
The results of the scenarios analysis confirm the importance of doing further work to ensure that we understand the critical dependencies between climate change and our business. And ensure we have action plans in place to help mitigate these risks and prepare the business for the future environment in which we will operate.
To tackle climate change, we've adopted a combined approach of making changes to our own business - aimed at reducing the emissions over which we have most control - while joining collective efforts and advocacy to help achieve the wider systems changes needed to create a low-carbon world. Our work includes:
Our Climate Smart Agriculture programme, aimed at helping the farmers and businesses in our supply chain reduce their GHG emissions
Our carbon positive targets, which including using 100% renewable energy in our operations by 2030
Using internal carbon pricing mechanisms to drive change in our business
Collective action to eliminate deforestation from global supply chains
Switching to energy efficient ice cream freezers
Designing products with lower GHG impacts.
We will halve the greenhouse gas impact of our products across the lifecycle by 2030.**
In addition, in our own operations, we will become carbon positive by 2030 by eliminating fossil fuels from our energy mix and switching to 100% renewable energy. We also intend to directly support the generation of more renewable energy than we consume, making the surplus available to the markets and communities where we operate.
We've cut CO2 from energy by 47%† per tonne of production in our operations and continued to develop products with a lower GHG impact, however the GHG impact of our products across their full lifecycle has increased by around 9%† since 2010.**
Underlying sales growth over the same period was 33.1%, so it is encouraging to see that we are decoupling our value chain GHG impacts from our business growth. The increase in GHG emissions per consumer use is mainly driven by our Personal Care business which has expanded in hair and shower products via acquisitions.
The momentum behind climate action is continuing to grow. More investors are factoring carbon resilience into their decisions. And according to research we conducted in 2016, consumers are increasingly looking for sustainable companies and products. We believe the transition to a lower-carbon model for economies and societies can be made - but there's no doubt challenges remain.
The amount of available renewable energy is increasing, and the costs are falling rapidly. But, much of the world's infrastructure remains reliant on fossil fuels. For example, that means that the electricity used to heat water, including the hot water used by our consumers, significantly contributes to GHG emissions.
To reach our 2030 commitment of halving the GHG impact of our products across the lifecycle by 2030, we’re dependent on a wide range of external factors, such as the energy efficiency of consumer appliances, and the carbon intensity of the energy supplied to people’s homes – as well as consumer behaviour.
We believe that carbon pricing is a fundamental part of the global response to climate change and without it, the world is unlikely to meet its GHG reduction targets. We have publicly supported calls for carbon pricing and are a member of the UN Global Compact’s (UNGC’s) Caring for Climate Campaign and The Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition, hosted by the World Bank. We have implemented the UNGC’s Business Leadership Criteria on Carbon Pricing and in 2018, we increased our internal price of carbon to €40 per tonne.
* Two of our targets were approved by the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi) in 2017. We set our first science-based target in 2010, to halve the greenhouse gas impact of our products across the lifecycle by 2030. The second science-based target was introduced in 2015, aiming to source 100% of our energy across our operations from renewable sources by 2030.
** Our environmental targets are expressed against a baseline of 2010 and on a 'per consumer use' basis. This means a single use, portion or serving of a product.
***As described in the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC AR5).
†Independently assured by PwC
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Targets & performance
We have an ambitious commitment to halve the greenhouse gases (GHG) associated with the consumer use of our products in our value chain.
Halve the greenhouse gas impact of our products across the lifecycle by 2030.1
In 2017, our greenhouse gas impact per consumer use increased by around 9%† since 2010.*
In 2017, our factory sites reduced CO2 emissions from energy by 47%† per tonne of production compared to 2008. We have also increased our use of renewable energy within our manufacturing; in 2017, this increased to 33.6% compared to 15.8% in 2008. Additionally, 65% of all grid electricity used in our manufacturing operations was generated from renewable resources.
Since we launched our Plan in 2010, we have learned a lot about the areas we can influence and those we cannot, and which areas need wider action from other players. For example, this includes the shift in the energy grids towards more renewable sources takes time, but are moving in the right direction, which will contribute positively to halving the GHG impact of our products by 2030.
To play our role in this, we have also set targets to become ‘carbon positive’ in our operations by 2030. This includes sourcing 100% of our total energy from renewable sources by 2030 and extends to making surplus renewable energy available to the markets and communities where we operate.
However, the GHG impact of our products has risen by 9% since 2010.* Underlying sales growth over the same period was 33.1%, so it is encouraging to see that we are decoupling our value chain GHG impacts from our business growth.
The increase in GHG emissions per consumer use is mainly driven by our Personal Care business which has expanded in hair and shower products via acquisitions. Over 60% of our value chain GHG footprint comes from consumer use, primarily from heated water for showering, which is more difficult to influence.
* Our environmental targets are expressed against a baseline of 2010 and on a 'per consumer use' basis. This means a single use, portion or serving of a product.
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Become carbon positive in manufacturing
By 2020 CO2 emissions from energy from our factories will be at or below 2008 levels despite significantly higher volumes.
This represents a reduction of around 40% per tonne of production.
Versus a 1995 baseline, this represents a 63% reduction per tonne of production and a 43% absolute reduction.
1,218,554† fewer tonnes of CO2 from energy in 2017 than in 2008 (a reduction of 47%† per tonne of production).
Compared to 1995, this represents a 69% reduction in absolute terms.
We will become carbon positive in our manufacturing by 2030:
We will source 100% of our energy across our operations** from renewable sources by 2030.
In 2017, 33.6% of our total energy use in our manufacturing operations was generated from renewable resources, compared to 15.8% in 2008.
We will source all our electricity purchased from the grid from renewable sources by 2020.
In 2017, 65% of all grid electricity used in our manufacturing operations was generated from renewable resources.
We will eliminate coal from our energy mix by 2020.
In 2017, 1.1 million GJ of the energy used in our manufacturing was generated from coal. During the year, 16 of our manufacturing sites used energy generated from coal. By the end of 2017, this was reduced to 12 sites.
In order to achieve our target of carbon positive by 2030, we intend to directly support the generation of more renewable energy than we consume and make the surplus available to the markets and communities in which we operate.
In 2017 we continued to develop our methodology and will report on our target progress in our 2018 Sustainable Living Report.
All newly built factories will aim to have less than half the impact of those in our 2008 baseline.
New factories in Turkey, Vietnam, India and Iran started production in 2017. When fully operational each aims to achieve only half the emissions of CO2 from energy compared to a representative 2008 baseline.
In 2017, our factory sites reduced CO2 emissions from energy by 8.1% per tonne of production compared to 2016 and 47%† per tonne of production compared to 2008, despite having achieved our target four years ahead of schedule in 2016. 1,218,554† fewer tonnes of CO2 from energy were produced in 2017 compared to our 2008 baseline. We continued to reduce energy use by 2.8% per tonne of production in 2017 and by 26% since 2008.
In 2015 we announced our carbon positive ambition. This supersedes our previous target of sourcing 40% of our energy across our operations from renewable sources by 2020. By the end of 2017, 109 manufacturing sites in 36 countries across all continents purchased 100% of their grid electricity from verified renewable sources. In 2017 we met 33.6% of our global energy needs from renewable sources.
†Independently assured by PwC.
How we’re becoming carbon positive in our operations
Reduce greenhouse gas emissions from washing clothes
Reformulating our products to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 15% by 2012.
Over 95% (by volume) of our laundry powders in our top 14 countries have been reformulated, achieving a reduction of 15% in greenhouse gas emissions by end 2012.
We continue to reformulate by optimising raw material usage in powders and capsules and optimising our manufacturing.
Liquid laundry detergents have a lower greenhouse gas (GHG) footprint than powders. We are driving market development through liquids: we grow faster in liquids wherever powders, bars and liquids are present.
Many of our liquids are now sold in concentrated form which reduces GHG emissions. They also provide great cleaning performance at lower temperatures. We are also increasing the number of unit dose washes which mean consumers cannot over or under dose.
We continue to lead the industry in developing lower impact powders by removing or reducing phosphate and zeolite – key components with high GHG impact. We have eliminated phosphates in 100% of our machine dishwash products and reached a 95% reduction in the global use of phosphates across our laundry powders, resulting in lower CO2 emissions of up to 50% per single consumer use. We’re continuing to investigate technologies that could lead to zero-phosphate products in the future.
Innovating to reduce greenhouse gases
Reduce greenhouse gas emissions from transport
By 2020, CO2 emissions from our global logistics network will be at or below 2010 levels despite significantly higher volumes. This will represent a 40% improvement in CO2 efficiency.
We will achieve this by reducing truck mileage; using lower emission vehicles; employing alternative transport such as rail or ship; and improving the energy efficiency of our warehouses.
31% improvement in CO2 efficiency since 2010. 6% improvement in CO2 efficiency and a 4% decrease in absolute terms in 2017 compared to 2016.1
In 2017, we achieved a 31% improvement in CO2 efficiency since 2010. We have made steady progress, with some of our market clusters achieving their highest ever improvement in CO2 efficiency.
Meeting our 2020 target remains ambitious, but we are determined to achieve it by continuing to build on the strong foundations we have in place. Through innovation and developing bottom-up carbon reduction projects, we will share best practices to ensure we build efficiency into our transportation logistics.
We are increasingly using non-road forms of transport such as rail and sea to move goods. For journeys still undertaken by road, we are exploring technologies such as liquefied natural gas (LNG) as an alternative fuel, electric vehicles, thermal blanket technology for temperature controlled trucks and hydrogen technologies. We are working with our partners to accelerate the adoption of the above technologies.
1 Cumulative improvement since 2010 is measured across our top 14 countries; annual improvement is measured in more than 50 countries.
Reducing transport emissions
Reduce greenhouse gas emissions from refrigeration
As the world’s largest producer of ice cream, we will accelerate our roll-out of freezer cabinets that use climate-friendly natural (hydrocarbon) refrigerants. When we launched our Plan in November 2010 we had already purchased 450,000 units with the new refrigerant.
We will purchase a further 850,000 units by 2015.
In 2013 we exceeded our target of purchasing 850,000 climate-friendly freezers, reaching a total of around 1.5 million.
In 2017 our total increased to around 2.6 million hydrocarbon freezers.
The climate-friendly hydrocarbon (HC) refrigerants we use in our freezers have a substantially lower global warming potential compared to previously used hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), which have a global warming impact thousands of times greater than the equivalent amount of carbon dioxide. The refrigerant change alone makes our freezers around 10% more energy efficient. By the end of 2017, we had purchased around 2.6 million freezers using natural refrigerants.
We are continuing to roll out climate-friendly HC freezers and make our freezers more energy efficient. In 2017, our purchased freezers were 50% more energy efficient compared to our 2008 baseline, with the most energy efficient models going even further. We are working on innovations to make more improvements in freezer energy efficiency, including piloting the use solar panels to power our cabinets.
Climate-friendly freezers
Reduce energy consumption in our offices
By 2020 we will halve the energy (kWh) purchased per occupant for the offices in our top 21 countries versus 2010.
30% reduction in energy (kWh) purchased per occupant since 2010.
We have set a challenging 2020 target to reduce energy purchased per occupant at our in-scope sites. In 2017 we saw a slight increase in the overall energy purchased and a fall in the number of occupants at our in-scope sites. We have continued to work on energy efficiency programmes at our sites and many have become more efficient in 2017.
But we're challenged by the energy demand of our data centres and our Research and Development (R&D) sites, which make up around half our energy purchased. In 2017, we reduced the total energy consumption of both data centres by 7%, but increased demand on other sites have pushed the reduction percentage per occupant over the 2016 figure. R&D sites run pilot plant experiments, which are more similar to factory operations, and the energy demand for these processes are not linked to occupancy.
We have continued to save energy through using our PC power management tool. We’re continuing to focus on the optimisation of our building management systems and the roll out of LED lighting across a number of our offices, to reduce our energy consumption.
We’re also looking at the carbon impact of our energy purchasing decisions. In 2017, 42% of our in-scope sites purchased certified renewable electricity. Additionally, our offices in central London and Surrey became carbon neutral through the purchase of certified renewable gas. Although it’s challenging to reduce energy purchased per occupant, we’re continuing to reduce the GHG impact of our offices.
Reducing office impacts
Reduce employee travel
We are investing in advanced video conferencing facilities to make communication easier while reducing travel for our employees. By 2011 this network will cover more than 30 countries.
54 countries were covered by end 2011.
We have continued to invest in implementing Skype for Business as well as advanced video facilities to reduce our travel footprint.
Our advanced video conferencing system, Video Presence, is used for over 950 meetings a month across Unilever offices worldwide. We have video conferencing facilities in 90 countries. This is substantially reducing our need to travel to meetings, and our carbon emissions. It delivers clear benefits such as cost and time savings for the business and cuts down on tiring travel for our employees.
To further reduce our GHG employee travel impacts, we have introduced messages on the benefits of using Video Presence when employees use our travel booking system to book flights. This encourages employees to travel only when necessary.
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Unstereotype Alliance at Advertising Week 2019
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Executive Director of UN Women, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, will lead a session alongside industry leaders including Unstereotype Alliance Vice Chairs: CEO and Chairperson at IPG, Michael Roth, EVP Global Marketing and Head of Diversity and Inclusion at Unilever, Aline Santos and Director of Sponsorships and Experiential Marketing at AT&T, Bill Moseley. The panel will be moderated by Business Strategist and Cultural Changemaker, Jess Weiner.
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A New York City Native, Adam Hunter is one of today’s hottest young comedians. He headlines all over the country, putting his heart and soul into every performance with an act that is brash, deep and hilarious. Adam was a finalist on season 6 of “Last Comic Standing”, has appeared on Jay Leno’s “Tonight Show”, “Chelsea Lately”, ”The Late Late Show”, MTV, VH1, TruTV CBS, Comedy Central, and Nickelodeon’s “See Dad Run”. In addition to appearing at arenas, colleges, and clubs all over the world, he has performed on numerous military tours for our Armed Services on bases in the Far East, Middle East, Africa and South America as well as here at home.
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Adam is a four-time New England Prep School Wrestling Champion (a feat accomplished only three times in the 150-Year-Old prestigious Class A Tourney) and twice was voted Outstanding Wrestler of the Tournament. His “MMA Roasted” web series, which he created, wrote and hosts is seen by a multitude of fans every time there is an MMA Event and is featured regularly on Foxsports.com. Adam is a prolific writer. He is the head writer of the Versus TV “MMA Awards”. Other current projects include the TV Pilot “Kamikaze Comedy” of which he was also the EP and host; “So You Think You’re A Tough Guy”, “Adam Hunter’s A.D.D.” and two Feature Scripts, “Pinned” and “Comic Stripped”. He also currently hosts two podcasts, “MMARoasted” and “Hunter’s World”. His “Texts from Last Fight” is also featured on Foxsports.com in conjunction with the UFC. Adam was the host of the TV show “Man Up Stand Up” on MavTV” and has appeared on Showtime’s “Whiteboyz in Da Hood,” “Comic’s Unleashed,” “Entertainers,” “Latino Laugh Festival,” and “Loco Comedy Jam”. He has appeared in sketches on “Conan O’Brien” and “Jimmy Kimmel” and was the subject of the MTV show “True Life I am a Comic”.
On stage, Adam talks about his issues concerning relationships, his dysfunctional family, and other life observations. He lays bare his most painful experiences including his mother abandoning the family when he was 3 years old, his family history with substance abuse, his issues with women, religion, and pop culture to the stage in a hilarious manner that everyone can identify with. Adam can bring down any house with his view of the world. Adam Hunter is a star in the making and you definitely want to catch his act!
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Alex Cutsforth and Savanna Gann hold up a Berlin-style rice bowl and beef falafels at the new SpireWorks in Thousand Oaks.(Photo: JOE LUMAYA/SPECIAL TO THE STAR)Buy Photo
SpireWorks, 2728 Townsgate Road #6, Thousand Oaks. 8805-370-7240. www.spireworks.com. Newly opened in a shopping center in the East County, SpireWorks concentrates on beef or chicken cooked on a vertical spit and shaved off as it becomes sufficiently done, then used for plates, rice bowls and sandwiches along with other ingredients that feature styles popular in Istanbul, Berlin, Greece or “Philly.” Sides also can be ordered a la carte and include Baby Dutch yellow potatoes, hummus with excellent freshly baked bread, quinoa tabouleh, purple cabbage slaw or a Greek salad.
Fratelli’s Pizza & Brew, 1559 Spinnaker Drive, No. 100, Ventura Harbor Village. 805-639-0866, www.fratellispizzaandbrew.com. The new restaurant rests directly beneath and is owned by Brophy Bros. Clam Bar and Restaurant, a popular longtime eatery at the harbor. Appetizers include some surprises — fried artichoke and Brussels sprouts appetizers — along with fresh and hearty pizzas, salads and sandwiches. The House Pizza, even in medium size, is good to share, as is the roasted vegetable version. Pozole Verde Soup is doled out in a bowl big enough to make it the focus of a meal.
Peebee & Jay’s, 601 W. Channel Islands Blvd., Port Hueneme. 805-366-0542, www.peebeeandjaysph.com. Offshoot of a thriving sandwich and salad business in Carpinteria, the new eatery offers a wide variety of creative sandwiches and salads, presented by a helpful staff who obviously share the restaurant’s philosophy of offering good food with good nature stirred in. Also enticing are the sandwich called So This Bacon Went on a Date, a tomato basil bisque and outstanding salads, one with a title that signals its unusual ingredients, Maple Loves Spinach … and Spinach Loves Maple, which combines spinach, chopped apples, fresh berries, candied pecans, feta cheese and maple vinaigrette.
The Masala Twist, 2810 S. Harbor Blvd., No. B-1, Channel Islands Harbor area of Oxnard. 805-832-4945, www.themasalatwist.com. The new restaurant specializing in Indian food offers a wide variety of familiar and specialized dishes, along with a weekday lunch buffet and weekend buffet brunch. The system is still getting a few quirks worked out, but the food offers endless options. Tasty items include mulgatani soup, a fine sampling of assorted appetizers, shrimp dishes including shrimp saag, with chopped spinach; dramatic tandoori “sizzlers”; lots of chicken, lamb and goat curries; and a raft of vegetarian specialties. Rice dishes and desserts round out the menu.
Fatburger & Buffalo’s Express, 650 N. Moorpark Road, Thousand Oaks. 805-370-8220, www.fatburger.com, www.buffalos.com. The newly open eatery featuring good food for those who relish burgers and chicken wings. With lots of variations, from the Original burger to the Thousand Island Fatburger on the one hand, to the bone-in or boneless chicken wings in multiple portions with 14 sauce options to cater to almost any taste. It’s order-at-the-counter, efficiently done, with the food then brought to tables. There’s a choice of sides, with the “homemade” onion rings a definite winner.
The Mad Rose, 543 E. Main St., Ventura. 805-628-3913. New on downtown Ventura’s busy Main Street is restaurateur Giovanni Tromba’s latest creation, which he opened recently while maintaining his Bistro 13 in Camarillo. Mad Rose features lots of Italian favorites, along with a range of upscale options that range from Chilean sea bass, salmon and baramundi to filet mignon and rack of lamb. Among the restaurant’s antipasti is a delightful burrata cheese plate paired with roasted beets and candied walnuts. Select wines and cocktails are available.
Santa Cruz Market, 1947 E. Main St., Ventura. 805-643-7810; santacruzmarket1947@gmail.com. The long popular grocery store and delicatessen now also provides a dining space for those who want to relax, order food and eat it at a table in the room a few steps up from the bustling grocery and take-out areas. Not only are Mediterranean favorites like wraps, kabobs and plates available, there are sandwiches to suit all tastes, even those who hanker for a basic cheeseburger with fries. On the Mediterranean side the tri-tip/lamb shawarma wrap, or the same ingredients as part of a plate, stand out.
Romano’s Macaroni Grill, 2920 Tapo Canyon Road, Simi Valley. 805-308-1303. The decades-old restaurant is still doing lots of business in its spacious main room and bar area. Service is swift and good-natured at its busiest, with the same good virtues shining especially bright at quieter times. The Italian food that comprises most of the menu follows traditional ways and features lots of variations. Crispy artichokes are a very shareable appetizer, and side salads to go with an entrée are very reasonably priced, with Rosa’s Signature Caesar among the winning options.
101 North Eatery & Bar, 30760 Russell Ranch Road, Suite D, Westlake Village. Chef Anthony Alaimo is producing a fine variety of well-sourced and well-prepared food at the new, spacious restaurant. Offerings will shift according to seasons or product availability, but it’s a good bet that Alaimo will find something special to prepare, from appetizers like Crispy Split Corn to deserts like baked chocolate clafoutis.
Ojai Bowls, 11492 N. Ventura Ave., in the Mira Monte area of Ojai. 805-633-9044, or ojaibowls.org. The new spot opened by owners Don Hull and chef Doug Hernandez offers three types of “bowls”: ramen, crafted and poke. Each style has multiple options for selecting to your own taste ingredients from its list, with the Braised Beef Crafted Bowl a standout. The Poke Bowls offer 16 topping options, with the possibility of having some of each — as long as they can be squeezed into the regular or large sized bowls.
Ambrosia by Caffrodite, 1987 E. Main St., Ventura. 805-628-9289. The new site is spacious enough to accommodate sippers and diners, and options are many in the organic and vegan realms. All dishes are very attractively presented, with the staff as concerned about the look of the many options along with the healthy organic tilt of the menu. The soup of the day is a consistent winner at midday meals, which also include such goodies as the Venus Cheese Panini, Galaxy Baked Brie and Out of This World Avocado Toast.
Parma Pizzeria Napoletana, 796 E. Thousand Oaks Blvd., Heritage Shopping Center, Thousand Oaks. 805-370-1370. The pizzeria, entered from a parking lot behind the streetside building, features an assortment of pizza styles: Neapolitan (Italian), Detroiter, New York and Ohio. The Detroiter is a tasty combination of thick but soft and cheese-edged crust with thin sausage slices and The Rave, from the Neapolitan style, is a winner with Cheddar and mozzarella cheeses, "New York” sauce, Italian sausage, roasted red peppers and fresh basil topping.
Spencer Makenzie’s Fish Co., 311 Carmen Drive, Camarillo. 805-804-3506. The Camarillo site, an offspring of the original and still bustling site in Ventura, is spacious inside and includes a welcoming patio. Seafood dishes abound, with tasty clam chowder, The Ahicado named for its primary fresh ingredients, fish tacos grilled and tempura style, and The Parker Burger, a surprising seared ahi sandwich on a bun are among the many possibilities.
Hot Spot BBQ, 6593 Collins Drive, Moorpark. 876-0302. Barbecue is the specialty and owner Daniel Placencia knows the way to getting it to the peak of texture and flavor. Featured meats are brisket, pork and baby back ribs, with chicken also an option. For fans of deep-fried pickles, they’re big and buff with crisp breading. Sides and salads are available, but barbecue is the focus.
Rave Organics Cafe, 520 N. Ventu Park Road, Suite 140, Thousand Oaks. 805-586-3325; www.raveorganics.com. Rave is big on smoothies and breakfast goodies, and also serves good lunch and anytime fare. It’s also big on turkey, along with a lot of fresh ingredients on pizzas, which come in sizes from 6 to 16 inches. The Monster Green Turkey Burger was fun, and the turkey taco quesadilla was a fine dish.
Gargantua, lunch offerings created by chef Nick Barainca, offered at Beacon Coffee, 211 W. Ojai Ave., Ojai. 805-248-7054 or info@beconcoffee.com, www.beaconcoffee.com. Hours are from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays. Among Barainca’s offerings on a recent day were jicama salad, whose ingredients included “green strawberry,” and Old World grains including peas, sunflower yogurt and “unripe blueberry.” Also offered were a very good masa flatbread with lots of mushrooms, Oaxacan cheese and hoja santa, a subtle herb. The meat and bread offering of the day was a small plate of plump linguisa sausage with charcoal sourdough bread.
Azi Grill, 245 N. Moorpark Road, Janss Marketplace, Thousand Oaks. 805-370-1470, www.azigrill.com. The new restaurant led by chef Mazen Nadour is full of the flavors of his native Syria, along with a few popular American favorites. It’s order-at-the-counter, with a wide variety of Mediterranean favorites from shawarma to falafel, dolmas, tabouli and kabobs. Plates, salads, sandwiches and wraps are available.
El Capricho Restaurant, 827 E. Main St., Santa Paula. 805-420-9542. If you liked Vince’s Coffee Shop in downtown Santa Paula, you’ll like El Capricho, in the same spot, with the same owners and brightened decor along with the new name. Food is served from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.Tuesdays through Fridays and 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturdays through Mondays, so there are plenty of options, from zesty omelets to enchiladas and tacos to plates that could serve as your day’s main meal.
Danny’s Deli & Grill, 3263 Telegraph Road, Ventura. 805-289-9200; www.dannysdeli.com. The longtime deli offers a wide-ranging menu to suit assorted tastes from breakfast through dinner. For the former, the avocado, bacon and tomato omelet with cheese is a winner, and the two-biscuit option with it provides a light and fluffy accompaniment. At dinner time, one of the satisfying items is the tender hot beef brisket plate from among the many options that range from hearty ethnic food to burgers, sandwiches and pastas. Diners can even choose breakfast items at dinnertime or any time of the day.
Qué Pasa! Mexican Cafe and Tequila Bar, 2433 Ventura Blvd., Old Town Camarillo. 805-586-9777; www.qpmexicancafe.com. The new eatery is settling into the spacious building that has housed multiple restaurants for short periods over the past six years. The Mexican fare includes fresh touches but also ranges through most of the traditional favorites. The ancho-rub ahi tuna salad is full of tasty ingredients; Fajita Supreme, which includes Angus steak, chicken and shrimp, is served sizzling and in a generous portion; camarones a la diabla is devilishly spicy; and a dessert of deep-fried ice cream perfectly counters any residual spicy flavors.
Hatch Cafe & Market, 30651 Thousand Oaks Blvd., Agoura Hills. 818-575-9000 or www.hatcheatery.com. Hatch is an inviting spot in a small strip mall with unusual breakfast and lunch preparations served from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Owner Mark LaValle and his staff describe its food as “ingredient-driven and locally sourced California rustic fare,” which makes it stand out among other order-at-the-counter spots. There’s plenty of seating room indoors and on the sidewalk fronting the cafe. Lunch items include a BLT with avocado spread and tomato jam accents, and a honeydew and feta salad.
Coastal Grill at Embassy Suites Mandalay Beach, 2101 Mandalay Beach Road, Oxnard. 984-2500. The restaurant at the resort is open to the public from 11:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily and its spacious rooms offer views of an attractive pool area with residents sunning and swimming as weather permits, which in Oxnard is almost every day of the year. The menu at the grill is delivered on a single page, but the options provide ample variety. The soup du jour could be a surprise like a creamy lamb version, or something less rare, and main dishes include a grilled chicken sandwich, the day’s market fish and the Bistro Steak.
General Chow Dumpling House & Bar, 502 Collection Blvd., Suite 1175, at The Collection at RiverPark, Oxnard. 805-278-4772 or www.generalchow.com. The spacious new restaurant has ample seating inside and a large covered outdoor patio. Selections included crab wontons, hot and sour soup and pork xiao long bao dumplings with soup inside, black pepper beef mignon, seafood pan-fried noodles and young chow fried rice with shrimp, chicken and beef.
Hill Street Cafe, 1050 S. Hill Road, Ventura. 805-654-1115. Friendly local cafe near the Ventura Government Center, serving breakfast, lunch and dinner with lots of options. Breakfasts offer everything from basic items to the heartiest of options. The Hill Street Special omelet is full of tasty ingredients. Old-fashioned good service creates a friendly atmosphere.
Cienfuegos Cuban Cafe, 1407 E. Los Angeles Ave., Suite X, Simi Valley. 805-791-3534; www.cienfuegoscubancafe.com. The Cuban restaurant is run by Tony Hernandez, whose father escaped from Cuba in 1959 and later established Chelo’s restaurant in Inglewood until his retirement. Cienfuegos features lots of Cuban favorites, from meat pies to sandwiches to sweets.
Moody Rooster, 2891 Agoura Road, Westlake Village. 805-370-3131, www.moodyroosterwlv.com. Co-owned by Chef Collin Connell and his wife, Vikki, the Rooster dishes out some extraordinary food preparations made from quality ingredients that are mostly local and seasonal. Vegetable offerings include roasted curry cauliflower and lentils and beet balls, with On Toast items ranging from beef brisket to crab toast. Exceptional desserts include chocolate praline crunch torte and butterscotch budino.
The 2686 Kitchen, 2686 Loma Vista Road, Ventura. 805-643-7444. The new restaurant that fills the space that was once Ventura Spaghetti Co. is owned by seasoned restaurant owners Joby Yobe and Jorge Alem and presents a compact but varied menu, from Empanadas Salta appetizers to sandwiches, main dishes and pizzas. A winner among the salads is the Brent St. Cobb, very fresh and flavorful.
RedBrick Pizza, 4990 Telephone Road, Suite 100, Ventura. 805-658-2828, www.redbrickpizza.com. The franchise restaurant at the Gateway Shopping Center is almost hidden in a corner of the large shopping center, but pizza fans are likely to find it worth the search. Pizzas are made with hand-crafted dough, organic red sauce and a variety of fresh vegetables prepared daily. The Panagoti veggie pizza and the thin-crust Rustica with ham, pepperoni and mushrooms are winners. The Proteina Salad, with a bit of almost everything in the mix, is a hearty choice. Gelato variations offer tempting desserts.
Twenty88, 2088 Ventura Blvd., Camarillo. 805-388-2088, info@twenty88.com, www.twenty88.com. The upscale restaurant holding forth for seven years continues to serve fresh and unusual dishes, with local ingredients when available. The dinner menu is wide-ranging and will modify with the seasons. Goat cheese egg roll appetizers, butternut squash ravioli and cherry-glazed short ribs were some of the highlights at a recent dinner.
Tara’s Himalayan Cuisine, 171 N. Reino Road, Newbury Park. 805-498-2166; www.tarashimalayancuisine.com. The new restaurant, offspring of Tara’s in Los Angeles, has been serving up fresh and tasty dishes from owner Dilipa Gurung’s native land for about six months. The menu may be exotic to some, but the freshness of the food and quality of preparation are impressive. An extensive list of dishes includes the Mix Grill Platter with its sizzling platter piled high with tender lamb, chicken and shrimp along with fresh vegetables, all wisely seasoned, plus the familiar (lamb saag) and less familiar (thukpa sherpa’s stew and khasi ko masu slow-cooked goat meat with coriander and mango powder). It’s almost impossible not to find an item to suit every taste.
Ranch House restaurant, 100 Besant Road, Ojai. 805-646-2360, www.theranchhouse.com. Open from 5-9 p.m. Tuesdays through Sundays. The decades-old restaurant originally established by the late Alan and Helen Hooker is now owned by Maria Angela and Steve Edelson. A new chef, J. Richard Sejkousky, has been in charge of the kitchen since late last year. Fresh, local food remains one of the restaurant’s distinctive qualities, with Moroccan spiced red lentil soup, seared barramundi fish and rosemary chicken breast among the entrées on the seasonally changing menu.
Scratch Sandwich Counter, in The Annex at The Collection at RiverPark, 550 Collection Blvd., Oxnard. 805-278-7478, www.scratchsandwiches.com. Chef-owner Tim Kilcoyne, well known for his Scratch food truck, brings some of the same tasty, well-sourced food to his equally informal counter at the newly opened Annex. One of many different food purveyors in the attractive space, Scratch turns out breakfast and other items, from sandwiches and soups to desserts to die for. One of the latter is the seasonal pie, with the apple pie a standout. His basic Counter Burger and smoked pork PB&J sandwiches are taste-tempters as well.
Smithy, 7 East Anapamu, Santa Barbara, close to the Granada Theatre parking garage. 805-845-7112, smithysb.com. The new contemporary restaurant features fresh locally sourced ingredients and creative presentations. Salads include a kale, Asian pear, grape and Pecorino version. Among flatbreads are a flavorful mixed mushroom, Gruyere, gremolata combination. Desserts are exceptional, including profiteroles, vanilla ice cream, chocolate sorbet and salted caramel treat.
Prawn & Basil, 3316 E. Thousand Oaks Blvd., Thousand Oaks. 805-370-0071, www.prawnandbasil.com. The new restaurant, operated by siblings Tata Lawton and Toto Khajorndecha, delights with a unique perspective that presents foods from the Far East along with American favorites, all prepared with innovation and well-selected ingredients. There’s a sushi bar with lots of sushi options. Basically, there’s something for every fan of good food well presented.
La Cosecha, on the ground floor of Crowne Plaza hotel, 450 E. Harbor Blvd., Ventura. 805-652-5151. www.lacosecharestaurant.com. The new restaurant under the direction of Chef Luis Martinez features traditional Mexican dishes made with fresh local ingredients and innovations from the chef. The menu will change according to season and availability of ingredients from respected California growers. Innovations can include a chorizo clam chowder or mini ceviche tostaditas featuring three types of seafood. The tequila lime shrimp La Cosecha fajitas dish is a lively combo.
Flatiron Bagel Co., 1817 Thousand Oaks Blvd, Thousand Oaks. 805-370-5800, flatironbagelco.com. The new bagel spot offers a wide variety of bagel and cream cheese flavors along with popular favorites. Breakfast, lunch and “sweet” bagels, some as sandwiches and others enhanced by a wide variety of cream cheese spreads and flavorings, are available during hours which conclude at 2 p.m. All the food is prepared for takeout, as there is no seating inside the small storefront, although there are two tables outside the entrance. The smoked salmon bagel sandwich is listed under breakfast items, but would be a winner any time of day.
Hunan Garden Chinese restaurant, 5241 Mission Oaks Blvd., Camarillo. 805-384-0689, www.hunangardencamarillo.com. The attractively decorated restaurant features bold blue-and-white fabric on its booths and seats, creating a cozy atmosphere for diners. Traditional favorites fill the menu, with a particularly good King and Queen option.
Kitanoya Japanese Ramen & Sushi, 1651 S. Victoria Ave. Suite 130, Oxnard, in the Seabridge area. 805-832-4243. The relatively new ramen and sushi spot is strong on good ramen, with 10 varieties on the menu plus a Custom Ramen option in which guests can select exactly what soup, toppings and other elements they prefer. Chanpon ramen, with a milk base, is a mild broth, but the bowl overflows with enticing ingredients. The cucumber sunomono salad also stands out, along with a variety of sushi rolls.
RELM Wine & Beer Bistro, 2390 Las Posas Road, Suite H, Camarillo. 805-91-7356, relmcamarillo.com. The bistro, which promises in its all-caps title “Relax,” “Enjoy,” “Laugh” and “More,” serves up tasty and diverse lunch light meal items of high quality, with bottles of wine discounted on Wednesdays. Sandwiches and desserts are standouts, with salads and flatbreads also tempting.
Cocovin, 4308 Tradewinds, Oxnard, off Wooley Road and near Victoria Avenue. 805-985-5614, eatcocovin.com. The new restaurant in the Brasserie Communautere space offers more flexibility in food choices while following in the same attention to the quality and sourcing of its food and the creativity of its preparation. Particular food choices and presentations may vary according to the availability of ingredients. Salmon, chicken and duck dishes were presented with innovative touches. Entrées also include steak frites, risotto and bouillabaisse.
The Nest, 401 E. Ojai Ave., Ojai. 805-798-9035. The new informal restaurant just off Montgomery Street is run by Kiona Wachter, in partnership with her father, Erik Wachter, who originated Erik Ericsson’s, now on the Ventura Pier. Across from the restaurant, Kiona created Beach House Tacos, a popular small drop-in spot. Menus at The Nest can change daily but are always likely to include snacks, aka appetizers, tacos, sandwiches and salads, plus a mini pizza for kids. There’s a large patio and a small dining area inside, and of course, there’s always takeout. Beach House and cauliflower tacos, and the Tireman smoked brisket sandwich are a trio of the site’s tasty items.
Bazille at Nordstrom, The Oaks, 346 W. Hillcrest Drive, Thousand Oaks. 805-418-4500. The new Bazille restaurant at Nordstrom in Thousand Oaks changes the space’s ambiance as well as its menu. More light streams in through the tall windows that in the past more shaded atmosphere. But the menu is more interesting than the lighting. There are still items to share or enjoy during a quick stop between shopping stints, but there are also unusually well thought out plates that could serve as hearty lunch or ample dinner. From a simple but innovative plate of Maple Bacon Deviled Eggs to a hearty Warm Asian Glazed Chicken salad or a delicate but highly satisfying plate of seared scallops with lemon-scented risotto, crisp green beans and grilled corn, there are lots of choices.
Anacappuccino, 289 E. Port Hueneme Road, Port Hueneme. 805-488-9580. The coffee shop with food for breakfast and lunch opened in 2003 and is family owned and operated. Reasonably priced food items include sandwiches, wraps, salads and soup. Popular early in the weekdays when it opens at 5 a.m. are a breakfast sandwich, oatmeal and croissants. Sandwiches and salads are always available. But for coffee fans, the wide variety of specialty drinks and espresso items offers something for just about every sipper’s taste.
Caribbean Haven, 1780 S. Victoria Ave., Ventura. 805-339-0706, caribhaven.com. The new restaurant introduced by Hutton John, a decade-long food catering presence in the Ventura area, features Caribbean and Filipino cuisine prepared with quality and freshness as guides. Options range from appetizers of Crispy Pineapple Sugarcane Wings to desserts like cassava pie, with generously portioned entrées like braised oxtail stew, grio pork belly and rasta curry pasta with shrimp. It’s order-at-the-counter but presented at the table by cheerful and knowledgeable staff.
Greek Cuisine: 315 Carmen Drive, Camarillo. 805-388-8088. Owners Nikos and Marika Sklavenitis have expanded their restaurant space, thriving since 2007, with the new Greek Cuisine, which of course comes naturally to them, as she’s from Sparta and he’s from Lefkada. The new large area is open from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., except on Mondays, and offers a good range of Greek favorites, beginning with a stellar avgolemono soup with its zesty twist of lemon, eggs, broth and rice. Plates include a luscious lamb souvlaki and specialty entrées such as dolmathes, spanakopita and moussaka.
Body Fuel Bistro: 599 W. Channel Islands Blvd., Port Hueneme. 805-228-1554 bodyfuelbistro.com. The new bistro run by mother and daughter Angie and Hailey Wiggins, who come from a fitness background, offers items that are not only good, but good for you. Food is available for dining at the site or for take-out. All of it comes in sturdy packaging that accommodates both on-site dining and take-out. The very fresh and tasty items include sesame ahi salad, a roast beef sandwich to remember, Shepherd’s Pie and Grand Prix Chili.
All Things Tea, 300 Lantana St., Suite 37, Camarillo. 805-445-TEAS, www.tea-liteful.com. A wide range of teas are available at the serene spot in a corner of Paseo Camarillo center, along with British delicacies that accompany High Tea, a specialty of the house, along with other tea settings. There are also salads, sandwiches, sweets, rolls, wraps and quiche for those who prefer just a sample of the good food and preparation offered at the pleasant establishment.
Yolanda’s Mexican Restaurant, 2753 E. Main St., Ventura. 805-643-2700, yolandasmexicancafe.com. The newly reopened East Ventura restaurant is going full bore now that major hospital construction behind the restaurant has been sufficiently completed. There still is parking directly behind the restaurant, as well as a new multi-story parking garage within the same block. The restaurant has used its downtime well, with a lighter, brighter look and refurbished furnishings. It’s still a pleasant place to order familiar Mexican specialties and the atmosphere is welcoming. Carnitas Veracruz is a standout, soups are bubbling with flavor and desserts are impressive.
Wildflour Bakery & Cafe, 29105 Canwood St., Agoura Hills. 818-597-8774, www.wfbakery.com. Wildflour is a superior bakery that also serves up fresh and healthy breakfast and lunch dishes, often with slices of its exceptional breads. Among appealing lunch items are the Crispy Chicken on a sesame brioche and the WF chicken salad and quinoa tabouli bowl.
Sea Ranger Seafood Station, 2950 Johnson Drive, 131-B, Ventura. 805-765-4715. New at the shopping area just off Highway 101 that formerly featured a film theater, later transformed into a church. Sea Ranger is one of a handful of counter sites inside one building, with some comfortable table seating shared by all of the food-service spots there, plus a few patio tables. The basic fish items are fresh and well prepared and there are a number of vegan items on the menu, as well as some Paleo Sea Dishes. Available seafood includes fried Alaskan cod, shrimp, a whole red snapper or tilapia, charbroiled fish, seafood salads, soups and sides.
Cafe Ficelle, 390 S. Mills Road, Ventura. 805-941-3444, www.cafeficelle.com. The recently opened cafe at the corner of Mills and Maple Street has quickly become popular because of its well-prepared French dishes served for breakfast to closing at 2 p.m. Lunch items join the menu at 11 a.m. Breakfast items and pastries are made with impressive skill and attention to quality. Small plates and sandwiches are also popular, along with a wide range of special coffee preparations and distinctive teas.
DiGuardi’s Italian Deli, 417 E. Port Hueneme Road, Port Hueneme. 805-874-1028. www.diguardisitaliandeli.com. The take-out deli is small but packed with fresh ingredients, with an emphasis on good Italian sausages but also including vegetarian options. There’s a wide range of olives and other enhancements to add to your enjoyment. The Classic hoagie and the Gene hoagie are especially good, and the Italian salad is full of fresh, flavorful ingredients. Nearby parks and of course the beach are inviting spots to enjoy your sandwiches and salads.
Orozco’s de Ventura, 839 E. Front St., Ventura. 805-628-3419. The new restaurant near the end of Front Street may be a bit difficult to spot, but once you’ve tried the food you’ll remember where it is. Inside, it’s handsomely decorated with rock wall treatments and furnished with sturdy blond tables and chairs. Hours, and what on the menu is available at the moment, seem to fluctuate, but you might want to try Huevos Divorciados for breakfast or camaron a la Mexicana for lunch or dinner.
Xielo Artisan Desserts, 212 W. Fourth St., Oxnard. 805-240-1122. A fine family-owned and -operated spot that is small but whose output is of high quality. Crepes, quiches, empanadas and a wide range of exceptionally good cookies are available, along with beverages including coffee, Mexican hot chocolate and shaved ice raspados. The asparagus and bacon quiche is a sure winner.
Q Sushi, 3070 Russell Ranch Road, The Shoppes, Westlake Village. 818-540-3231. An upscale sushi spot, with other fascinating Asian items, and the Kieu Hoang Wine Lounge offer a serene and attractive setting, excellent service and a wide range of sushi, grilled items and izakaya (shared) plates. From a simple American Kobe skewer with truffle salt to the Salmon Festival, a multifaceted special roll, diners can go from light food to full meals with confidence that everything is made with care and an understanding of quality.
Ojai Harvest, 307 E. Ojai Ave., Suite 105. 805-633-9232. The casual eatery, and its adjacent Harvest Bar, really does serve food that comes from Ojai harvests, gathering in the area's fruits, vegetables, cheeses and meats and converting them into creative and tasty dishes, whether you’re making a brief stop are staying for a meal. Among the goodies that might be available when you stop by the season-driven restaurant are liver mousse, orecchiette and cheese, salmon ciabatta, Cubano Melt or just a perfect fried chicken sandwich. Whatever your tummy tells you, Ojai Harvest has the goods.
Casa Bella Prime Steak and Seafood, 391 E. Main St., Ventura. 805-652-1055. The latest restaurant opened by owner Jan Schuster, who also helms Prime Steakhouse restaurants in Ventura and Agoura Hills. Casa Bella adds spice to the menu, accents that echo those in Mexico City cuisine. Among the lively starters are pleasantly spicy crab cakes and delicious seared scallops. Entrées include a hearty pork chop and tender skirt steak among multiple options. Bread pudding was a delicious dessert that easily satisfied two.
Tio’s Cafe, 2248 Tapo St., Simi Valley. 805-638-0240, www.tios-cafe.com. The spacious breakfast and lunch cafe offers a wide range of popular wake-up items beginning at 7 a.m. and continues through 3 p.m. serving breakfast and lunch. Options run from basic steak & eggs to a lox Benedict; scrambles full of flavor, such as a day’s special artichoke version; French toast and waffles like the fresh fruit-topped Howie’s version; South of the Border Specials; plus lots of sandwiches for the lunch bunch.
Fluid State Beer Garden, 692 E. Main St., Ventura. 805-699-6467. Buoyed by carefully chosen food, a wide selection of beverages and a delightful sense of humor, the new spot is a welcome addition to Downtown Ventura. Orders are taken at a counter, with a daily menu available to peruse before choosing. The day’s special charcuterie plate is also listed on a blackboard. A simple slice of pizza, with an especially rustic crust and unusual combinations of toppings, is a good place to start, but even items as simple as a deviled egg or as basic as a salad are treated with a sense of the possibilities of basic foods.
Le Petit Cafe Bakery, 1591 Spinnaker Drive, Suite 112, Ventura Harbor. 805-642-1191. The cafe and bakery, thriving at its present location since 2001, is open for lunch and dinner, with different hours for different days of the week. Ample French favorites, from crepes to croissants and Croque Monsieur to Confit de Canard, are available and enlivened by fresh local ingredients. There are surprises like a day’s special soup of a surprisingly pleasant blend of sweet potatoes and jalapeños, or a delightfully light goat cheese baguette with sun-dried tomatoes. And there’s always the bakery, also with a French accent.
Dong Ting Spring, 520 N. Ventu Park Road, Suite 150, Thousand Oaks. 805-262-0888. If you’re looking for authentic Hunan-style Chinese food, this is the place to find it. There are lots of items on the new restaurant’s menu that you won’t find on other area Chinese eatery menus, among them specialty fish filet with pickle, egg and corn sweet soup, house beef rolls, chicken feet, stinky tofu and spicy duck necks. More familiar items also are served, but the main dishes really stand out as coming from a different take on Chinese food.
PokeRamen, 429 E. Hueneme Road, Port Hueneme. 805-246-5541, www.pokeramen.com. The months-old restaurant features appealingly fresh poke, ramen and cupbop dishes with a Korean sensibility along with a small assortment of sushi rolls. It’s ordered at the counter but served at tables. Owner and staff are particularly helpful to customers, especially at times when there isn’t a large crowd during its lunch or evening hours. The poke is especially appealing and fresh, the ramen tingles the tongue with its bright flavors and the cupbop is very satisfying.
Finney’s Crafthouse and Kitchen, 982 S. Westlake Blvd., at Westlake Plaza in Thousand Oaks. 805-230-9950. Greg Finefrock’s new watering spot offers Craft Draft with emphasis on local and regional brews. The food is fun and fine, too, with Bratwurst Minis, mahi-mahi tacos, mushroom burgers and The Daisy Club Sandwich among the offerings.
CiCi’s Cafe, 30990 Russell Ranch Road, Westlake Village. 818-874-3391. Following in the successful footsteps of its sister cafe, which opened in 2006 in Tarzana, the new site offers an amazing array of pancakes, waffles, French Toast and crepe options, along with salads, burgers and such, served in the pleasant indoor area or on the sunny patio. Forget-Me-Not crepes are memorable, as are the Corn Island pancakes, to mention a few of the countless tempting options. The service is as good as the food.
EMC Seafood & Raw Bar, 511 Town Center Drive, The Collection, Oxnard. 805-278-4997. The recently opened shellfish and other seafood restaurant features an abundance of choices including oysters, seafood sashimi and carpaccio, sushi rolls and small plates among starters, plus main dishes from the grill or steamer and combinations teamed with pasta or rice. Arriving during happy hour, 3 to 6:30 p.m. will get you price reductions on some of your favorites.
Sakura Cha Ya, 2810 S. Harbor Blvd., Channel Islands, Oxnard. 805-901-3104. The homestyle preparation at the Japanese kitchen in the harbor’s food court features fresh traditional dishes that range from a flavorful okonomiyaki, Japanese-style pizza, to familiar curries, tempura, bowls, noodle dishes and rice balls. If you’re hungry it’s best to get there well before 5 p.m., when they close Tuesdays through Thursdays, and Sundays. On Friday and Saturday nights, the eatery remains open till 8 p.m. Pork katsu don features a generous portion of breaded pork cutlet and there may be surprises that aren’t on the menu but are featured for the day.
Burgerim, 587 N. Ventu Park Road, Newbury Park. 805-375-0066, www.burgerim.com. The first of the chain of restaurants founded in Israel to arrive in Ventura County, it features mini burgers with main item patties available made of beef, turkey, lamb, dry-aged beef, chicken, chorizo, salmon, veggies, spicy beef and Wagyu beef. The lamb and dry-aged beef stand out with fuller flavors and a touch of moisture. The mini burgers come with house sauce, lettuce, tomato and onions, and customers may add toppings that range from pineapple and jalapeño, to sautéed mushrooms or even a sunny side up egg.
Blaze Pizza, 301 Esplanade Drive, Oxnard. 805-368-0593. The concept is simple. All of the pizzas are built on thin crusts as customers choose either a Signature Pizza for which the ingredient combinations are already designed or choose-your-own toppings, freelancing through the array of sauces, cheeses, meats, veggies and “finishes,” with counter staff adding whatever you point at. It doesn’t matter, as it all costs the same price per pizza, $8.45. Salads and desserts are also available, with the former possible as one of the toppings on your personalized pizza. The Art Lover pizza is popular, and even if you don’t find all the toppings you want on that particular pie, you can have some more ingredients added as you pass along the line.
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The Veblen House
Friends of Herrontown Woods (FOHW): Restoring a forgotten house and legacy
Veblens
Herrontown Woods
Veblen, Reidemeister, Colin Adams, Knots, Sailing, Topology and Pi(e)
An interest in knots and Veblen lured me to a lecture on the mathematics of knots two weekends ago at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL). One of my ideas for an offbeat daycamp experience at the Veblen House is to reintroduce knot tying to the younger generation, whose exposure to knots may not have advanced beyond tying shoes.
Little did I know that I would witness a mathematics professor being very nearly devoured by a great white shark during his lecture entitled "Blown Away: What Knot To Do When Sailing." Part of the PPPL's Science on Saturday Lecture series, the lecture explored the mathematics of knots through the travails of two characters--a Texan and an Englishman. Colin Adams, of Williams College in MA, was the mathematician/storyteller.
The tall tale he told was of being in a sailing race off the coast of England. In the midst of the race, he discovers there's a knot in the sheet (a sheet, as everyone knows, though I had forgotten, is a sailing term for one of the ropes on a sailboat), preventing him from coming about. Adding to the dilemma, the "sheet hit the flan" that he had brought along for a snack, making it too slippery to handle. He dips the sheet in the water to clean it, a great white shark grabs the rope, and he is suddenly confronted with the question of whether the knot can be undone without having one end of the sheet free.
This segued into an inquiry into how to analyze knots visually and mathematically, beginning with Kurt Reidemeister, who in the 1930s developed what Adams calls three types of "Reidemeister Moves". Knot to be undone, Adams eventually wrestles the rope from the shark, unties the knot, and sails into the sunset.
Reidemeister, it turns out, was a German mathematician who was transferred to a less prestigious university from his post in Konigsberg in 1933, due to his opposition to the Nazis. A search of the internet reveals a Veblen connection: Oswald Veblen wrote a letter of support for his fellow geometer Reidemeister (p. 89 in this online book). The strong connection between mathematics and the arts that is a recurrent theme at the Institute for Advanced Study can also be found in Reidemeister, who "wrote about poets and was a poet himself. He translated Mallarmé."
In another parallel with Colin Adams' thinking: An idea of mine for the Veblen House was to name the farmstead either the Pi Farm or the Pie Farm. The symbol for pi, after all, is shaped like a house, and most everything a farm grows can be put in one sort of pie or another. Turns out that Colin Adams co-wrote a book entitled The Great Pi/e Debate, in which they answer the question, "Which is the better number, e or pi?" Princeton has an annual Pi Day on March 14, to celebrate Einstein's birthday.
Another book by Colin Adams that combines math and whimsy, "A Deprogrammer's Tale", appears in recommendations next to "The Dot and the Line", a childhood favorite of mine that is given a connection to the Veblen's Herrontown Wood in this post. Adams also, like Veblen's family, has a Wisconsin connection, having received his PhD at U. of Wisconsin in Madison.
Yet another book by the prolific Adams is an Introduction to Topology. Here's a description of Veblen's contribution to the field: "Veblen's first work on topology appeared just before he arrived in Princeton. He went on to establish Princeton as one of the leading centres in the world for topology research. Analysis Situs(1922) provided the first systematic coverage of the basic ideas of topology and contributed to the development of modern topology."
And sailing? Well, sailing was one of Einstein's favorite activities, and the Veblens had a cottage in a town in Maine known for its wooden boat building. It's not clear if Veblen ever took to sailing. He may have been more comfortable in the woods, clearing brush.
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In January of 2019, Christian Medical College, Vellore (CMC) celebrated the official opening of the new extensions to the Mary Verghese Rehabilitation Institute. The start of the project was announced at the Golden Anniversary gala for the Institute in 2016, specifying that the expansion was needed to allow CMC to serve more patients, accommodate growing staff needs and prepare for the increase in demand associated with the opening of the new Trauma Center. CMC’s successful undertaking of the expansion resulted in the increase of bed capacity from 83 to 100.
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Nearly three-quarters of Irish people in favour of gay marriage
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ALMOST THREE-QUARTERS of people in Ireland are in favour of gay marriage according to a new poll published today.
A Sunday Times/Red C poll found that 73 per cent of people agree that gay couples should be allowed to marry with 53 per cent of those agreeing strongly with the idea.
A total of 14 per cent strongly disagree with the idea while 8 per cent disagree slightly. The poll found that women were more likely to agree with the idea of gay marriage than men by a difference of 16 per cent.
Three in five also believe that gay couples should be allowed to adopt children, according to the poll.
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Good, Bad & Ugly: Ex-Fulham, Brentford and Brighton forward Darren Freeman
Posted on December 17, 2015 by Adam Ellis in Featured, Features | 0 Comments
by Chris Dunlavy
AT 22, Darren Freeman was plodding round the part-time circuit with the likes of Lewes, Horsham and Worthing.
Yet within six years, he’d won four promotions with four different Football League clubs, played against boyhood club Tottenham Hotspur and scored some 27 goals to boot.
Finished by injuries before he’d even turned 28, the former Gillingham, Fulham, Brentford and Brighton forward wasn’t around for a long time.
But he certainly had a good time – even if it did involve being stood up by his Fulham manager Micky Adams and skinned by David Ginola! Now 42 and manager of Ryman Premier side Lewes, Freeman has plenty of tales to tell.
First Club
My first professional club was Gillingham under Neil Smillie and Mike Flanagan. I’d been playing Non-League football for Horsham and they must have scouted me. I went up on trial and they signed me, which was a dream come true.
I was 22 by then. I’d been on trial at Brighton as a young lad but it was one of those where I wanted to be a footballer and wouldn’t take no for an answer.
I’ve always had the attitude that if people say no, I try twice as hard to prove them wrong. I believed in myself, my father believed in me and told me to keep going. I never doubted it would happen, though you need a bit of luck as well.
Best manager
Tony Pulis at Gillingham made a big impression. He taught me a lot. You knew your roles and responsibilities, you learned good habits. He was a very hard man, a tough taskmaster who would drill things into you again and again, every single day.
But the man who got the best out of me was Micky Adams, who took me everywhere. Micky’s great strength was that he’d always get the best out of whatever he had. However bad the hand, he’d find a way to play it. That’s the mark of a good man-manager and, in that sense, I think he had the edge over Tony.
Best team-mate
Bobby Zamora. I played with him when he was a young lad at Brighton. I always knew – as did anyone who watched him – that he had something special about him.
Best team-mate: Bobby Zamora (Photo by Action Images/Spencer Day)
You watched him in training and everything was effortless. He had natural ability, he had strength, he had pace – and that was in his early twenties. You just knew that once he matured he’d be a phenomenal talent.
Don’t get me wrong – he put the graft in. But it was so easy for him at that level, he could have played at half pace and still got 20-a-season. He was head and shoulders above everyone else.
First promotion
I’ve been very lucky in that respect. I’ve actually been promoted with every single professional team I played for – Gillingham, Brighton, Fulham and Brentford. That’s something I’m very proud of and I think it’s probably why managers liked having me around.
Gillingham was the first, in 1995-96. We were runners-up, but we absolutely smashed it that season. We had Tony in charge, Leo Fortune-West up top.
And that was the year Jim Stannard, our keeper, broke the record for the lowest number of goals ever conceded in a 46-game season with 20. We were incredibly solid but we also had good individuals.
Funniest player
Simon Morgan at Fulham. He was the funniest player I ever knew – and the most miserable at the same time!
He’d moan about anything and everything. If he hadn’t been a footballer, we always said he’d have made a great Victor Meldrew impersonator.
But he was also a great captain and a great character with quite a dry sense of humour.
He used to make me laugh a lot and he used to get the best out of everyone he played with, especially the younger lads coming through.
Funniest incident
I remember one year I was playing for Fulham. I picked the ball up, ran straight across the pitch, then started taking people on, dribbling towards my own goal.
I remember looking up and seeing Micky Adams and Alan Cork jumping up and down, swinging their arms, shouting ‘We’re kicking that f***ing way!’ Everyone laughed at that.
(Photo by Action Images / Paul Childs)
But the best was probably during a pre-season tour of Ireland during my first summer with Fulham.
I scored a hat-trick and Micky said, in front of the whole dressing room, ‘Well done, Darren, you can have tomorrow off. These lads will be training but you and me are going on a fly fishing trip’.
He told me to get up at five in the morning and he’d pick me up outside the hotel.
I should have known then it was a wind-up but I was pretty naive then so I set my alarm, had my breakfast and stood there waiting. Obviously the gaffer never came.
When I got back the lads were crying with laughter – they couldn’t believe I really thought I’d get a day off. It took a long time to live that one down.
Biggest achievement
I’ve won a lot of promotions and I’m proud of them all. I also scored a hat-trick on my debut for Brighton which will always have a special place in my heart. But for something totally unique, I’d probably say scoring the first goal of the new millennium.
It was January 2, 2000 and I scored after two minutes against Exeter. Whatever happens, it’s a record that can never be taken away.
Lowest moment
Being told my playing days were over. I’d had many knee operations over the years, and a lot of groin problems.
By that point, I’d had three strangulated hernias, so I was already in a pretty bad way, then I pulled all the muscles and ligaments off my groin.
I went to see a specialist and he said to me ‘Look, you could play on. But if you do, you could easily end up in a wheelchair’.
Football is your identity and, when it’s taken away, you forget who you are. It was all I’d ever wanted and all I could really do. I’d been playing well at the time as well, so it was a huge blow to have come to a sudden stop like that. I was in a very bad place, but I had my family and my friends around me and you soon realise there are people far worse off than you.
Toughest place to go
Hartlepool on a Tuesday night. It was always freezing, it was always windy. And no matter who I was playing for, it was miles and miles away. I hated it.
Toughest opponent
Sol Campbell, who I played against in the late nineties when he was still at Spurs. He was enormously strong and powerful.
I did actually score that day but he still left an impression.
Mainly it was his size, but he was also good on the ball and a very intelligent defender. He was also quicker than people realised, especially given that it took you a week to get round him!
Favourite place to go
White Hart Lane – even though I never won there. I’m from Brighton, but I grew up a Tottenham fan. Glenn Hoddle was my hero and it sort of stuck from there. Later, I loved watching David Ginola.
We played them in a few cup games, around 1998 or ’99, and to be on the same pitch as Ginola was an unbelievable experience.
He was incredible, even at that age. I wish I could have watched him at closer quarters, but I never got near him!
Just to enjoy every day I’m in football. I’m managing a great club now in Lewes and it really is an honour to be here. I was at Whitehawk before, who I took to Conference South. We won three divisions in four years, which is a massive achievement.
Hopefully I can bring Lewes similar success and we can get into the Conference. Obviously I’d love an opportunity to manage full-time but I’m still learning the trade and I love getting out there and coaching. That’s my focus now.
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Proposed border wall in Starr County may exceed $784 million
Mitchell Ferman
RIO GRANDE CITY — The 32 miles of proposed border wall in Starr County may cost as much as $784 million, according to U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Laredo.
In addition, $498 million has been appropriated in the U.S. House of Representatives 2018 appropriations bill for 28 miles of levee wall in the Rio Grande Valley, primarily in Hidalgo County. For the bollard wall in Starr County — which would reach as high as 30 feet with an 8-inch diameter — Customs and Border Protection remains in the initial stages of planning the concrete-filled steel fence, according to CBP documents.
“Three quarters of a billion dollars on just those 32 miles for Starr County,” Cuellar prefaced on Monday. “(That’s) a lot of money; imagine what you could do with that money. That’s only 32 miles. I’d rather use the technology, the personnel, and make sure CBP has the proper technology at the ports.”
While CBP continues to plan a potential barrier between the United States and Mexico, a constitutional challenge to the government’s border wall waivers in California could impact its construction in the Valley, a local environmentalist said.
Proposed border wall in Roma area
California filed a lawsuit Wednesday alleging that President Donald Trump’s proposal to expedite construction of a wall at the U.S.-Mexico border violates laws protecting the environment.
Scott Nicol, executive member of the Sierra Club, said that his group — along with the Defenders of Wildlife and the Animal Legal Defense Fund — also filed a lawsuit on Sept. 14 challenging the constitutionality of the government’s waivers. Defendants in this suit are the Department of Homeland Security and its acting secretary.
Nicol and his group have been in the middle of the border wall debate locally, believing the CBP has been operating with impunity with regard to laws surround the purported border wall construction.
“It’s likely that if they are going to go forward with border walls in Santa Ana (wildlife refuge) they will waive laws the same way they have in California,” Nicol said. “It’s just easier from their perspective … they don’t care about the damage that they do, then why should they have to suffer legal consequences for doing it. I think that’s pretty irresponsible. It’s pretty absurd to say, ‘We need to enforce one set of laws, and we’re just going to go ahead and sweep aside another set of laws.’ It’s not what the whole legal structure should be about.”
Nicol said if the Supreme Court were to decide that the waivers are unconstitutional it could dramatically shift the purported talk of border wall construction throughout the country.
“(If) the Supreme Court says, that yes, this waiver power is unconstitutional, then that completely changes the playing-field for border walls everywhere, South Texas included,” Nicol said. “They would no longer be able to waive all of these laws.”
He said if the government had to abide by the laws they tried to circumvent through the waivers, it might be a while before any construction begins.
“If they don’t have the ability to waive the national environmental policy act, they’re going to have to prepare an environmental impact statement — that’s going to take them probably a year,” Nicol said. “… All these laws that were waived the last time walls were built in South Texas, they would have to start obeying those laws.”
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Holtz on loss at Marshall: 'I don't feel like distractions affected the game'
Louisiana Tech will again be without its suspended quarterback, wide receiver and linebacker when the Bulldogs travel to face UAB.
Holtz on loss at Marshall: 'I don't feel like distractions affected the game' Louisiana Tech will again be without its suspended quarterback, wide receiver and linebacker when the Bulldogs travel to face UAB. Check out this story on thenewsstar.com: https://www.thenewsstar.com/story/sports/college/louisiana-tech/2019/11/19/holtz-i-dont-feel-like-distractions-affected-loss-marshall/4228541002/
Cory Diaz, Monroe News Star Published 4:56 p.m. CT Nov. 19, 2019 | Updated 6:05 p.m. CT Nov. 19, 2019
Louisiana Tech head football coach Skip Holtz breaks down freshman quarterback Aaron Allen's first career start at Marshall. (Photo: Cory Diaz)
RUSTON — An awful lot of distractions.
Coming down off the team’s first loss in more than two months, that’s how Louisiana Tech head football coach Skip Holtz described the build up to last Friday night’s big Conference USA showdown at Marshall.
Redshirt senior quarterback J’Mar Smith, redshirt junior wide receiver Adrian Hardy and senior outside linebacker James Jackson were all officially suspended the day before the game for violating an athletic department policy. Couple that with players navigating final exams and the game being on a Friday, there was too much to handle.
During his weekly press conference Tuesday afternoon, Holtz said he didn’t believe the jolt of the suspensions lingered or affected how the team performed in the 31-10 loss to the Thundering Herd.
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LA Tech looks to get back on track at UAB this week. (Photo: File/Nicolas Galindo/The News-Star)
“I felt really good about our team. I felt they handled it incredibly mature,” Holtz said. “I was more worried about where they were mentally. I don’t feel like all the distractions lingered and affected the game. We made some uncharacteristic mistakes that we haven’t made all year.”
Holtz said he and his staff knew as of last Tuesday that they’d be without the unavailable players. Although the absence of Smith, Hardy and Jackson may not have caused a damning ripple effect throughout the Bulldogs locker room, but how Tech (8-2, 5-1) approached the game on offense, turning to redshirt freshman quarterback Aaron Allen in his first career collegiate start, was quite different by admission.
“It was probably the more limitations we put on a redshirt freshman to make sure he didn’t go into that game — I mean, it wasn’t get in empty, see the whole field and throw it 50 times from the pocket. That wasn’t the game plan going into it,” Holtz said. “I think we ran the ball efficiently at times. We tried to put saddle a little more on (running back) Justin Henderson. I thought (redshirt sophomore tailback) Israel Tucker played a great game. We weren’t able to get enough big plays.
“It was limited but it was to make sure we protected him and I think as we go forward, we’ve got to take the gloves off. We got to do what we got to do to win a football game.”
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Allen played solidly with a limited game plan, going 19-for-32 for 159 yards. The Missouri City, Texas native took care of the football and on his second drive, completed all three of his throws for 36 yards that advanced Tech to the Herd 5-yard line.
“What are Aaron’s strengths? Aaron sees the field really well and doesn’t put the ball in danger,” Holtz said. “He throws the ball very accurately, and he did all those things that we thought he would. I was proud of the way he went out and competed.
“He had four drops, that would’ve put him 23-of-32 and we had four 50-50 balls. If we come down with of those, he’s 25-of-32 in his first career start in a tough place to play against the number one team in the East. I thought he played really well.”
Through the first eight games with Smith at quarterback, Tech scored touchdowns inside the red zone 76 percent of the time. But Holtz noted the struggles the Bulldogs offense had inside Marshall’s 20, scoring one touchdown in four trips.
The 10 points Louisiana Tech put up was its lowest mark of 2019.
“We were 2-for-9 in the red zone touchdown percentages (offense and defense). We lost turnover battle which led to points. We gave up too many big plays,” Holtz said. “It wasn’t anything more than we’ve got to play a cleaner game if we want to compete for a conference championship.”
Jackson will be back on defense for Louisiana Tech, but Smith and Hardy will serve the second of their two-game suspension Saturday when the team will travel to take on UAB. Allen will get his second career start and the Bulldogs can clinch the C-USA West division crown with a win over the Blazers (7-3, 4-2) at Legion Field.
“We’ve got to put last week behind us. I think our players are angry with the way we played. Very uncharacteristic,” Holtz said.
“They’re motivated and excited about the opportunity they have in front of them. They were excited to practice Sunday night and they’re excited to get back onto the grass to get prepared for this game that has the makings of a classic Conference USA matchup for the Conference USA West division.”
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Pentacles to honour US's fallen
Department of Veterans Affairs settles headstone lawsuit
By Lester Haines 24 Apr 2007 at 15:52
The US's Department of Veterans Affairs has bowed to requests to allow pentacles to be "added to the list of emblems allowed in national cemeteries and on goverment-issued headstones of fallen soldiers", AP reports.
Eleven families across the US had issued a lawsuit demanding the right to honour their fallen sons with the five-pointed star. The VA decided to settle "in the interest of the families involved and to save taxpayers the expense of further litigation", a spokesman explained.
The settlement also agreed to the VA stumping up $225,000 in attorneys' fees and costs and that the pentacle be "placed" on the grave markers within 14 days.
We should point out that the pentacle in question indicates affiliation to the Wiccan religion, and not the Aleister Crowley Appreciation Society. The five points represent earth, air, fire, water and spirit, and the symbol joins those of Buddhism, Christianity, Eckiankar, Islam, Judaism, Seicho-No-Ie, and Sufism Reoriented* on a list of 39 which the VA "permits on gravestones".
Reverend Barry W Lynn, boss of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, which represented the Wiccans in the lawsuit, trumpeted: "This settlement has forced the Bush Administration into acknowledging that there are no second class religions in America, including among our nation's veterans."
Wiccan high priestess and plaintiff Selena Fox said: "I am glad this has ended in success in time to get markers for Memorial Day."
The VA settlement also satisfies another lawsuit brought last year by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of "two other Wiccan churches and three individuals", AP notes. ®
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Liverpool Sound City 2015: Day 3 Roundup
By John Fernandez on Friday, 12th June 2015 at 2:00 pm
Header photo by Niall Lea
For more of John’s coverage of Liverpool Sound City 2015, read his day 1 and day 2 round-ups.
As people finally got used to the bizarre layout of the new look of this year’s Liverpool Sound City, the third day had crept up. Brains were frazzled from the night before by the orgy for the senses served up by The Flaming Lips. Revellers who had crept into the city centre to keep the party going after the Lips now had hangovers galore from day 2’s festivities, so the bars were still looking bereft of people on Sunday.
As for the bars, I’ve never seen a festival better prepared. The area was about as long as the similar installations at Reading and Leeds Festivals staffed by just as many luminous vest clad volunteers. Problem was, with just a fraction of the expected clientele walking through, the facilities looked hilariously empty for most of the day. Additionally, planning that saw pints pre-poured for quick service, meant that during the dearth of customers, pints were sitting poured in the baking midday sun. Definitely a decision to review, methinks. Nobody wants a warm pint of Strongbow on the third day of festival if they’re paying through the nose for it.
Aside from logistical issues and the numerous punters moaning and groaning about the health of their legs after an hour long trudge back to their hotel in the city centre, the festival site was a hub of activity on the final day, with the corporate sponsorship’s Red Bull-mobile blasting out crap drum ‘n’ bass remixes of classic tracks as you entered the festival It was a reminder that although until quite recently, the festival had a DIY feeling, everyone has to sell their souls in the end to the corporate monsters. Still, you could be at Creamfields, and count your lucky stars you’re not there.
Because at Creamfields, you certainly wouldn’t be treated to the psychedelic grooves of Moon King, who graced the abandoned warehouse of The Baltic Stage around mid-afternoon as the shroud of grey cloud disappeared from over the site. The Canadian duo of Daniel Benjamin and Maddy Wilde exuded energy and all male eyes were transfixed to the baseball cap-cladded shredder providing the trademark ‘buzz-saw’ guitars, as Benjamin did his best Justin Hayward-Young impression, with about 50% of the balls and swagger of the former. (7/10)
Houdini Dax came highly recommended to me, and with a packed out Cavern Stage to greet me as I arrived, it was obvious I wasn’t alone in hearing of the charms of the Welsh three-piece. From start to finish, the boys exuded an infectious energy to the relatively lethargic crowd, and with a few charming smiles and sing-alongs, they laced the kind of hooks you’ll be humming for days, going down as stern favourites for day 3. Their set closed with ‘Get Your Goo On’: in title it sounds utterly ridiculous, but the song brought a lively 30 minutes to a close with a bit of swagger, some Beach Boys-style call and repeat and at least a 100 new likes on Facebook post set! (9/10)
From melt in your mouth harmonies to a complete disaster was sadly what awaited me with Clarence Clarity. The highly-rated Londoners would probably go down great at a smoky acid-house/post-dub night in Brixton. But, after the splendid chords of Houdini Dax, the semi-glitter pop mash-ups they served in the warehouse ended up sounding like an utter sonic catastrophe. The reverb screamed around the enclosed space and within minutes those without earplugs were vacating the area for something less audibly offensive.
They’ve done their best to sound like a 21st century turn on Outkast, but in doing, so it’s just ended up as a bit of a mess,with Eastern influences mashed crudely into your run-of-the-mill British drum ‘n’ bass. Perhaps this sound would work in a different setting and at another time – but as a prelude to Gaz Coombes, Peace and Belle and Sebastian at about 6 o’clock with the sun still shining, they simply jarred and sounded like a mess. (4/10)
Calming things down on The Atlantic Stage were the gentle tones of Bill Ryder-Jones who cut a lonely figure in the middle of the vast stage. He has all the hallmarks of any 18 year-old music fans crush, with sweeping good looks and swishy hair, plus a moody expression cut upon his face permanently. Sadly, Bill was nothing special at Liverpool Sound City, pumping out a couple of mediocre covers, some staggeringly uninventive, along with three chord originals and all at a pace that sent me daydreaming into thoughts about what delectable burger van food I could chomp on and whether the Premiership season had finished yet. With time I’m sure he’ll find his sound, as his songwriting seemed to hold up, but for now he just felt very vanilla on a day which could have done with some rum and raisin. (5/10)
Now while I was trying to escape Clarence Clarity’s sonic bombardment, I bumped into a young German girl who asked me for tips on who would blow her mind (aside from the obvious), to which I replied the next act on the Cargo Stage, “Findlay is nothing short of phenomenal every time I see her”.
Of course, by doing this, I inevitably delivered the kiss of death to her set.
For an act that normally struts about the stage with an incredible swagger and presence, I was shocked when she delivered a terribly staccato performance, bereft of showmanship and craft. Instead, it just felt like another day at the office. The fierce Debbie Harry-lite figure of Findlay had been neutered and stayed locked behind a set of oversize sunglasses. Whether it was a poorly-thought-out change of tact, to go from ferocious female aggressor to a sultry parlour singer grated on me. Because for the main part, barring from a rousing rendition of ‘On and Off’, she delivered a pedestrian performance stripped of the trademark character I’d promised to my new friend from Central Europe. In fact, it was so disappointing out the corner of my eye I saw the very Fraulein make for the exit after three songs. (6/10) Probably to get a good space for the next band on The Atlantic Stage…
Kings of the indie singalong The Cribs looked every bit the seasoned pros they are compared to some of the green-behind-the-ears acts gracing every one of the stages over the weekend. They easily drew the biggest crowd of the day so far, being probably one of the most recognisable names on the bill, and it’s probably to no surprise as well. Quite easily the three-piece could have turned up, delivered the hits and been on their way with a big smile on their faces – cash in pocket – job done. But instead they threw every bit of themselves into it, to the delight of the Liverpudlian crowd. The three-piece choral harmonies were great and really lifted the entire set, whilst the new poppier material lifted what could have been a bog-standard Cribs set to something far more. (7/10)
In fact, it was the perfect preface to former Supergrass frontman Gaz Coombes, the penultimate act on The Atlantic Stage. As expected, there were no frills and bells like the night before. No gimmicky matching jackets like Everything Everything and The Vaccines, despite Coombes definitely putting a bid in for Best Dressed Man at the festival with his attire. Instead, one of Britpop’s finest men on stage, guitar in hand, was trying his hand at going solo to good results.
Now, while his second solo album ‘Matador’ may have only debuted at number 18 in the Official UK Albums chart, in circles like Liverpool Sound City he was always going to get far more respect and credence than at another festival. Effortlessly cool and with the gently soaring masterpiece that is ‘Detroit’ in Coombes’ arsenal, he commanded the slowly fading light surrounding The Atlantic Stage. Although there were rumblings of ‘is he going to play ‘Alright’?’, in the crowd after a few of his originals, everyone seemed to settle down to enjoy a true legend of his era going out on his own. (8/10)
From one legend, to another. Belle and Sebastian carry with them the baggage of being cult stars. In fact, it’s difficult to find somebody these days that enjoys alternative music who DOESN’T name an experience watching Stuart Murdoch and co. as one of the crowning moments in their musical history. I waited with trepidation, as I’ve never GOT Belle and Sebastian; they’ve just never managed to excite me in the way I want music to. It’s all just felt like wallpaper–jazzy elevator music to me.
The group of Glaswegians manage to captivate the crowd, myself included, with their phenomenally deep songwriting. ‘Nobody’s Empire’ is a personal highlight, as Murdoch’s intensity is poured into every single lyric, as if he was living the experience right there in front of the crowd. It wasn’t the spectacular of colour The Flaming Lips served up, or the singalong, lad-rock frenzy of The Vaccines. But in their own way, Belle and Sebastian delivered one of the most soulful, warm and encapsulating sets of the weekend. (8/10)
So what did I learn this weekend? Delving into the unknown on highly-tipped acts like The Serpent Power and Clarence Clarity can sometimes be a dangerous endeavour, which can lead to your willy being commented upon on social media alongside pictures of genitals being sent to you. But bands like Houdini Dax, The People and the Poet and Hollysiz can come from left-field sources and end up being the highlights of the festival. That’s the joy of events like Liverpool Sound City and The Great Escape: while you can walk in on some absolute duds, it’s unlikely you’ll have a weekend of it with the sheer glut of musical talent on show. Just work on the stage layout guys, or The People and the Poet won’t be back…
By John Fernandez on Friday, 5th June 2015 at 3:00 pm
Ten years ago, staring at MTV Rocks on the television with my Dad, the lyrics “she don’t use butter, she don’t use cheese, she don’t use jelly or any of these” set me on a path. A path which started with me purchasing the rest of The Flaming Lips‘ back catalogue in one bulk purchase, and ended at Liverpool Sound City on The Atlantic Stage, with a sensory overload courtesy of Wayne Coyne and co. A fantastic booking for the festival.
But before then, I of course had to get to the festival, which as I learnt on the Thursday, is no mean feat – seeing as it is a good 30 minute walk from the main Liverpool city centre. My solution? A rented bike, a tactic that when I whizzed past the thousands of revellers waiting for taxis (for an hour and a half in some cases) and stumbling drunkenly back to the City Centre made me incredibly smug, and the revellers entirely mugged off.
Once I’d locked up outside of the new festival site, which looks certain to be the festival’s home for the foreseeable future, I ventured to The Atlantic Stage for a set that would begin a week of social media awkwardness. Almost supergroup The Serpent Power were gracing the stage, made up of Ian Skelly (The Coral) and Paul Molloy (The Zutons) and a few other less well-knowns…
The result, an utterly forgettable set full of wallpaper music:- the kind of self-indulgent psychedelia with noodling solos galore that you’d expect from a super group, but perhaps not one with the song-writing credentials The Serpent Power brought with them. With droves of punters at The Atlantic Stage deciding to make haste somewhere else, it was obvious their brand of new indie was really striking accord with the flower crown in their hair bunch and not much else.
So when I tweeted the following:
Pretty average from @TheSerpentPower on The Atlantic Stage at #SoundCity15. Stick to The Zutons and @thecoralband pic.twitter.com/KfcTc9hcUC
— John Fernandez (@JohnFernandez1) May 23, 2015
I didn’t really expect to wake up the next day with The Serpent Power feeling I had struck a nerve:
@JohnFernandez1 @thecoralband your willy is really average John
— Serpent Power (@TheSerpentPower) May 24, 2015
Now while they may have got it spot on about my run-of-the-mill willy, the set was still sub-par. The ‘banter’ was probably the highlight, so maybe social-media comedy is the way to go? But as the cliché goes, don’t give up your day jobs. (5/10)
From the largest stage, to the smallest: Service Bells were next up on The Record Store stage, which effectively was just a small tent with speakers and the ability to sell records. The intimate surroundings lent to Service Bells’ set superbly, as their Queens of the Stone Age-influenced rock bounced and reverberated within the tight confines. Over waves of feedback, Fraser Harvey’s cutting vocals hit the back of the tent, their visceral drum and guitar assault working to draw a packed out crowd into the tight confines. Although their set was brief, they teased perfectly to their later performance on The Kraken Stage, by giving just a taste of the aggression of their music. (7/10)
From blood and guts rock ‘n’ roll, it was on to alternative new wave electronica with Dutch Uncles on The Atlantic Stage. It’s a bit of a departure but a welcome one, as the four-piece pull out all the stops to make it a feast for the senses. Despite the rather overcast and glum setting in Liverpool, Dutch Uncles serve up an almost samba beat, with hips shaking and a calypso rhythm uniting the audience in their booty shaking. Duncan Wallis juts and throws his way around the stage as Andy Proudfoot, Robin Richards and Peter Broadhead provide a glittering calypso boogie. Their colourful backdrop and the verve and enthusiasm imbued in their performance meant gave a summery outlook for what was a rather gloomy setting, as they transported us to a beach, ‘Club Tropicana’ style.
Striking an uncanny resemblance to Game Of Thrones character plump, yet loveable buffoon Samwell Tarly, lead singer of the next band Leon Stanford captured the entire crowd with his wit and lack of comprehension for how close all the stages were. In honesty, the Tarly lookalike had a point seeing as what could be made of his beautiful Gaslight Anthem-esque vocals was mostly drowned out by the thumping bass emerging from The Cargo Stage behind him.
Despite these facts, The People and the Poet cut through the walls of sonic obscurity as well as they could and played a brilliant set. The storytelling was encapsulating and Stanford’s cutting wit meant your attention was affixed to the Welsh four-piece. My only confusion was how Welsh they sounded speaking, and how un-Welsh they sounded making music. In fact, it felt more like a band from the Midwest of America, which did have me scratching my head. Despite the tonal confusions, The People and the Poet stood out on the Saturday as arguably the stand out band with their brilliant turns of phrase and superb delivery, even in the face of adversity… (8/10)
The joyful summer party atmosphere of Dutch Uncles was supplanted at The Baltic Stage, giant empty warehouse, by the feeling of a proper old-school punk show, courtesy of aged-retainers The Membranes. Old-school punk has a certain, er, look. The Membranes, quite simply ARE that look: shirts off, muscles rippling, dodgy haircuts that they probably couldn’t pull off 30 years ago and are no closer to doing so now and a menacing look upon the frontman’s face. They were every bit the grizzled bunch of punkers that the tagline ‘still inspired by punk rock but believe music has no boundaries’ conjures up.
It’s not exactly note perfect, and ‘gritty’ is probably the best word to describe it as, with most of the audience affixed to the wrinkled prune John Robb marauding menacingly around the front echelons of the stage. For most of the set, regrettably for the aged-retainers, their post-punk growls and riffs just didn’t strike an accord, until their final hurrah when the band rallied for a rousing call and return effort. Stellar work for guys who look like they may need a defibrillator post-set. (7/10)
After a brief top-up at one of the beer tents, which looked drastically overstaffed and dramatically overegged for the actual level of trade they would be receiving throughout the weekend, I made my way to the end of the pier at The Atlantic Stage for a moment I’d waited more than a decade for. As the light of the sun disappeared and the artificial light began to illuminate the small strip of tarmac the crowd were kettled into, the stage was draped with various plastic tubes for the light-fantastic The Flaming Lips were about to set up. In true Wayne Coyne style, he helped with the soundcheck resplendent in his green latex froggy suit, with the rest of the band dressed equally as colourfully and dotted around the stage, intertwined in the maze of dangling tubes.
Coyne and co. began with a ballad in the form of ‘The Abandoned Hospital Ship’, a jangling soaring journey through the psyche of this era-defining trio. That’s all before The Flaming Lips really begin their orgy for the senses, with cannons full of ticker tape and a ‘Fight Test’ singalong, as giant blow up aliens join Coyne on stage. As Coyne takes us through a quick tour of the bands most successful singles, he stops the audience midway through a slowed down singalong of ‘Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Part 1’. “I don’t know whether you KNOW how important the HYAH HYAH bit of Yoshimi is, but Coyne bellows, “it’s a marker as to the level of crazy the audience is”. Most of the crowd loomed around baffled, but as it came to the HYAH HYAH portion of the song, we got a proper shout from the audience.
The set never really peaked to a mass singalong, simply for the fact that most of the audience didn’t know a lot of the songs. But the encore of ‘Do You Realize?’ was a soaring chorus across Liverpool Sound City with everyone getting caught up in the lights and excitement of The Flaming Lips.
Despite this, disappointingly due to the niche market The Flaming Lips occupy the crowd never really fully got on board with the set on a musical level. As far as a feast for the eyes, they delivered a 10/10 performance, but musically there was a lack of connection as a band who have disappointed with its last three records struggled to hold the interest of the crowd. (7/10)
Liverpool Sound City 2015: Day 1 Roundup (Part 2)
By John Fernandez on Thursday, 28th May 2015 at 2:00 pm
Part 1 of John’s coverage of Friday at Liverpool Sound City 2015 is this way.
Sticking with the theme with big chugging riffs in a warehouse, loud enough to make the meek and wimpy head for exits – not a daisy chain headpiece in sight – Yak were the next band on The Baltic Stage as the day became more and more Baltic in temperature and people gathered in the confines of the warehouse to escape the near arctic winds coming in off the river Mersey. Their bluesy Band of Skulls-esque riffage was enough to get everyone grooving at the front of the stage, despite the acoustics of the warehouse playing havoc with Oliver Burslem’s vocals. (6/10)
It was the turn of one of the big hitters next, or was it?
WHERE’S YOUR BAND, DEBBIE? As four Parisian musicians stepped onstage, the look of collective bafflement spread across the venue. Where were Slaves? A quick search on #SoundCity15 led me to the conclusion that they’d pulled out to another collective look of bemusement and a united sigh of disapproval. Oh well, on the bright side it meant I didn’t miss the triumphant return of the bespectacled groovesters of Spector, who were next up on the Atlantic Stage.
Now these guys were met by *yet another* collective look of bemusement. That’s not Frederick Macpherson, they’ve changed frontman! NO, he’s just gone hipster 2.0 and grown his hair down to his neck. Still, despite a wee change of hair-do could Spector build the anticipation to their new record? The answer, a resounding and still endearingly dapper YES. With all the charms and singalongability Spector brought on their delightful debut, the five-piece Hits like ‘Chevy Thunder’ had the now sizeable crowd standing on the precipice of the Mersey jumping up and down without due concern. While new track ‘Bad Boyfriend’ is the kind of heart-meltingly warm live track Spector are going to make their own over the next year of touring and promoting. Macpherson still has glorious presence on stage and while his band seem to keep the personality to a minimum by staring blankly into the Liverpool sky, Macpherson manages to carry the energy of the entire group and make a stunning show. (8/10)
Starring as the penultimate act on a strong bill were Everything Everything who get extra points in my boom as their guitarist Alex Robertshaw is from sunny Guernsey. They admit it’s been 18 months since they’ve graced a festival stage, but you’d struggle to believe it as they’re tighter than a cat’s bumhole – in musical terms that is. In the space of around six years they’ve gone from a band with a quirky new sound, to indie pop behemoths with a serious reputation amongst the industry. Jonathan Higgs voice remains one of the most unflappable and tonally malleable in the industry. Every note is perfect, and when you have to hit the kind of ranges Higgs is, that’s no mean feat. The tunes are still as inventive and quirky as the first time ‘MY KZ UR BF’ became an immediate hit and catapulted them into the mainstream consciousness.
The band as a unit looked impeccable in their faux-jester robes – the point of which I’m yet to put my finger upon. The set is a hit after hit affair, with a fair bit of audience reaction to each of the more well-known tracks like ‘Kemosabe’ and ‘Cough Cough’. The latter proving a huge success as it built to its noodling crescendo. One thing is for sure, this set was one which loosened the hips of half the audience, with 90% shaking and shimmying in the small space they had on the docklands. (8/10)
Once the sun had set around 10 o’ clock and Everything Everything had departed the anticipation started to build for the night’s headline act. When I asked around, ‘what were most people looking forward to on the Friday’ barring the rather null answer of Slaves there was only one other constant: The Vaccines. My first thought was, with two albums each clocking in around half an hour and a third one imminent; they’d struggle to fill one and half hours. The second one was what a frontman Justin Hayward-Young is becoming – he’s got just the right amount of arrogance to pull off the look he’s going for.
Rockstar credibility is in toe as he petulantly throws his mike stand around the stage for the roadies to pick up after almost every song, and the pride to know from minute one to the time they make their bow (no encore) that he’s got the crowd eating from the palm of his hands. It’s a set chocked to the nines with hits, which every one of the crowd can sing along to, not matter the demographic. The new stuff goes down well, but it’s the tracks from ‘What Did You Expect From The Vaccines’, especially ‘Norgaard, which go down the best. A splendid end, to a full-on day! And the music only started at 5. (9/10)
By John Fernandez on Wednesday, 27th May 2015 at 2:00 pm
Liverpool Sound City is in its seventh year and for the first time has moved from its spiritual home within the centre of the city. Before, the music was irretrievably mixed up in a maze of streets within the heart of Liverpool; the festival turned the already vibrant area into a thronging haven of musical activity, with bands popping up in warehouses and on the street in a metropolitan mezze of musical delicacies to amuse any palate. This year still served up a veritable banquet to satisfy any taste buds, but this time festival-goers needed to travel 20 minutes outside of the centre of Liverpool for the event.
Bizarrely, this report from Liverpool Sound City 2015 comes from the Docklands this year. The setting is quaint, if you manage to block out the industrial sprawl you’ve walked past to get there. One of the unique selling points of Sound City in its earlier guise was its central location. So the decision to plonk it way down the road has left many, including this writer, scratching their heads and with sore feet from walking to the secluded site.
Luckily, I found a solution: Liverpool’s version of the ‘Boris Bike’ to get me from the centre of the city where 99% of the hotels are to the festivals site. Again, the site is a departure from the dotting of venues around the city, as now in a more conventional festival manner, each stage is within a set perimeter.
My #SoundCity15 mobile. Bargain. pic.twitter.com/WXvt0mEGAV
My first impression of the actual layout of the site was one of confusion, but in such tight confines, after 15 minutes of ambling around with a dazed look on my face I managed to get my bearings on where everything was. The most striking feature was, understandably, the giant disused warehouse that was being used as The Baltic Stage. The first band up in the vast venue were Barberos, a three-piece from Merseyside, but not exactly one straight out of the textbook.
Yes, all dressed head to toe in sparkly silver morph suits, Barberos feel like they’ve been transplanted out of the realms of science fiction and onto a stage where their primary aim is to creep the shit out of you. From almost start to finish, their tribal roars and wave of drums echoed furiously around the disused warehouse, while the screech of their synths worked to either drive people from the venue or numb them into a stupor. Their sonic assault on almost every one of my senses proved too much and after three songs I felt my eardrums literally splitting in two and decided instead to go and sample less screechy and space age music. Perhaps they’re just scores ahead of their time? To quote Marty McFly, “your kids are gonna love it’. (5/10)
Yeah, alright then. #SoundCity15 @tgtf pic.twitter.com/4nFIJwHdLs
At the end of Stanley Docks, where the festival now calls its home, was The Atlantic Stage, which was acting as the Main Stage. Scottish band Neon Waltz, who’ve recently been snapped up by Noel Gallagher’s management, were first on and whilst they drew a good crowd for the first band of the day, their performance was all a bit glib and dry. It felt like for the 30 minutes they were building to something which might be a little more exciting, like the second time you sleep with someone, but in the end you just realise the exciting bit is never going to come, despite how much promise is shown at first. Plus the lead singer, whose mum then tried to banter me off on Twitter, *does* look about 2, despite being 18 or 24. I’m not sure really. (6/10)
@JohnFernandez1 @tgtf @annshearer I'm 18 ya fool. #pressage
— Jordan Shearer (@JordanShearer91) May 22, 2015
Despite a classic seafront breeze chilling everyone on the docklands to the bone, a rather large crowd had amassed at The North Stage for Francopop artist HollySiz, not least because her outfit left little to the imagination. Immediately, HollySiz had the crowd fixated on her, throwing herself around the stage like a ragdoll. Opening with the inflammatory ‘Tricky Game’, she already conjured up images of your early ‘80s Europop with strong synths and a staccato pace.
It wasn’t exactly Kraftwerk but HollySiz had an air of authority that she demanded from square one on The North Stage. The closest mainstream comparison of the last few years I can give to her was Gossip, although I’d argue HollySiz had an air of the rock and rolls about them. She had the presence of Beth Ditto though, but without the hairy armpits. She finished the set by leaping into the crowd and taking a leaf out of the Slipknot / Frank Turner books by getting everyone to sit on the floor and leap up. Now, anyone who can do it as successfully as she did before the sun goes down at around 6 in the evening on a chilly Liverpudlian day has definitely made an impression. (9/10)
Briefly, I stumbled into The Cavern Stage, to catch a glimpse of old-fashioned Derry four-piece The Clameens. It was light-hearted spiky pop guitar riff driven music, with influences like Arctic Monkeys, Two Door Cinema Club and The Undertones shining prominently through. Songs like ‘She’s Got My Heart’ and ‘Follow’ had the crowd swaying and jumping up and down, whilst their happy-go-lucky demeanour meant the audience all had a well needed dose of summery smile injected into them before they faced the gloomy Liverpool skyscape on the way out of the tent. (7/10)
Bad Meds were next on my port of call (get it, I’m at the docklands and I just said ‘port’) in the setting of the Baltic Stage. Within the confines of the giant disused warehouse, their reverb laden rock sounds utterly enormous and the sheer simplicity of their songwriting works to make the unconverted thoroughly converted. I mean, what’s not to like about songs where you remember how you died in 1995, or that one about how you left a cult?
The highlight though is undoubtedly ‘It’s Grim Up North’, their take on the Justified Ancients of Mu Mu song. The concept: a list of lots of cities in the North and how grim they are. It’s just about that offensive that you can probably say its genius, and it’s not half true too: I mean, have you been to Crewe? It’s grim. 10/10 for originality. Probably less for friend-making in the region though… (8/10)
Stay tuned for the second half of John’s day 1 report from Liverpool Sound City tomorrow.
Single Review: Young Guns – Daylight
By John Fernandez on Thursday, 30th April 2015 at 12:00 pm
When I listen to Young Guns, I expect pompous, bloated choruses that set the hairs on the back of my neck standing on end. Ridiculous inflated drops which chug with the kind of thud of a jet engine on a Boeing 747, perhaps with some strings littered in the background for extra gravitas. Their upcoming single ‘Daylight’ disappointingly delivered on only one of these expectations, this being that there were a few strings thrown onto it for good measure.
Young Guns, when they arrived on the scene, were hailed as a traditional alternative rock outlet. The kind you’d find every 3 months on a cycle on the front page of Kerrang!, looking moody and telling their interviewer, “this album almost tore me apart”.
‘Daylight’ is the work of a band trying to evolve and become something new, but sadly stumbling at the first hurdle. The opening sounds like a mix of Daft Punk’s ‘Discovery’, and the rest has a painstaking late ‘90s boyband feel to it. Now, okay, pop punk and alt rock has always walked a fine line between what’s alternative and cool and what’s mainstream and boyband-y, Blink 182 being the obvious example. On ‘Daylight’, Young Guns tiptoe on the line and are sadly blown off by a gust of wind, which says it’s just a little too far into the realms of synth to sound rocky at all.
The chorus sees Gustav Wood going a little too ‘Twilight’ for me and while he may be appealing to an audience which loves whiny frontmen, it just doesn’t suit Wood and co. The riffs aren’t beefy, the drops are nonexistent and although their first two records weren’t exactly raw, this single has too much production sheen on it for me.
‘Daylight’ is taken from the new Young Guns album ‘Ones And Zeros’, to be released the 8th of June on Virgin EMI. Past posts on the band on TGTF are here.
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Single Review: Slaves – Cheer Up London
By John Fernandez on Wednesday, 29th April 2015 at 12:00 pm
When you started your first job, did your parents tell you if you just did the simple things right and well, then you’d probably do alright? Or maybe it was when you started playing football? You were probably told if you can learn to do the basics properly and repeat it, you’d end up doing pretty well for yourself.
I’m pretty sure, despite the Ben Drew-esque back stories I’m intrinsically drawn to when I think of Slaves – you really can’t help it when you see the Nike trainers and surprisingly shiny jackets – that Slaves must have received some pretty good parental advice before embarking on a musical career.
I can almost hear it now as lil’ Laurie Vincent walked out of the door, ready to face the big wide world. “keep it simple, lad!”, his West Ham-supporting Dad will have shouted, before adding “stick to repetition!” as Vincent went round the corner.
Three singles into the band’s fledgling career, and the advice is serving the twosome rather well. ‘Cheer Up London’ is another devilish slab of cheekiness from the lads who are likely to redefine the meaning of ‘cheeky chappies’. The delightfully simple, almost mundane suggestion to “put another 0 on your paycheque / are you done digging your grave yet?” will strike accord with any creative type watching the city slickers on London boost their pension pot. I mean they put it perfectly: “how could it be so bad when you’re already dead?”
In 2 and half minutes and probably using below 50 words altogether, Slaves take a cuttingly cynical eye on the socio-economic norms of the UK in a way not done since Gallows’ ‘Grey Britain’. It’s enough to strike an accord with any young creative type silently judging the banking middle classes who Slaves say “are dead already”.
Now, they’re not going to make any friends in ‘the city’ – I don’t think it was their aim to, in fairness – but sticking to the formula that has seen them noticed over the last few months seems a good move, with ‘Cheer Up London’ is another fantastic example of Slaves are becoming known for. Incisive, relatable and catchy punk.
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August 6, 2010 By paulmbanks 15 Comments
Few have been more maligned on the Illini defense than highly touted Illini recruit Martez Wilson. From his lack of a mark on the field to his off-field exploits, he’s had a tough go of it in Champaign.
However, much like they should be, his experiences have only gone to make him stronger, again, both on and off the field. He missed pretty much all of 2009 due to injury, but one good piece of news coming from the Zook Big Ten Media Day press conference, was the health of middle linebacker Martez Wilson.
“He had a great, great spring. He had a great camp. He was playing as well as any Mike linebacker I’ve been around probably anywhere,” Zook said. “In fact, actually he went through spring, he didn’t go through the contact. It was hard to keep him out of it because he was always trying to stick his face where he shouldn’t stick it. Just got his final checkup last week, and got 100 percent clean bill of health and ready to go.”
Wilson’s health means that the defense will automatically be more athletic and dangerous than they were last season.
By Paul Schmidt
Much of Wilson’s growth stems from the now-infamous stabbing incident in December 2008, when he was out at a local bar called Fubar with one of his former teammates – Eastern Illinois standout running back D’Angelo McCray – and two of McCray’s friends from Eastern.
A fight had broken out involving McCray’s friends, and he and McCray went to go help when McCray was hit in the head with a bottle. That was when Wilson, just trying to help his friends and teammates, intervened, and went to the ground.
He didn’t even realize that he had been stabbed until he got to the hospital and went into surgery.
Wilson is completely forthcoming about the incident, which most know the details of now, but he still doesn’t know one part of the story.
“I really don’t know what happened there, or what really started it, actually,” Wilson said.
The incident has also made him more responsible with his life.
“I am more aware of everyone everybody when I go out now, for sure. If I do decide to drink, for one, I make sure that I have someone who doesn’t drink with me, and I don’t drink as much any more, either,” Wilson said. “I also have people with me so we can always look around our surroundings to make sure we’re ok. I don’t go out as much as I used to…maybe every once in a while, but not near as much as back then, my freshman and sophomore years.”
With that responsibility of being a leader and a scholarship holder on the football field does come a price, and it comes in sacrificing a little of the typical college experience that we all are familiar with.
“It doesn’t really hold me back, but at the same time I play more of a responsibility role, like coaches don’t tell me not to go out, they just tell me to be smart about it,” Wilson explained. “You know, they say you don’t need to fight, and they’re right, there’s no point to it. It’s not worth it, and I can’t afford to be putting myself back in that situation again.”
That type of maturity is something the Illini will be counting on this fall from Wilson, as he tries to fill the shoes left by J Leman three years ago and Britt Miller two seasons ago.
As for the challenge of moving from the outside to the inside, Zook also doesn’t believe that will be a problem for Martez.
“We’ve done it with J, and we’ve done it with Britt, and I just think that with the offenses that we see, you’re going to see a lot of spread offenses and that middle guy is to have to be able to run, and be able to move,” Zook said. “They’ll empty the backfield, and you’re going to have to have a guy that can run. But on the same token, the only thing about Martez now is that he’s benching 405, he’s pulling 328 from the floor, he can hold his own against anybody in the middle.”
Wilson agrees that the one thing he has really had to change in coming to a Big Ten school from the Chicago Public League is his strength.
“I would say that I’ve had to get more physical than then,” Wilson said. “I’ve always had the speed, but I would say I’m more physical now, that I’m more of a hitter. I’m trying to be more of a hitter, and filling the gaps and just learning how to play the game of football better.”
That learning curve is hopefully near completion or at it’s apex, because Zook, the coaching staff and the rest of the Illini defense really are counting on big things from Wilson and plan on having the defense revolve around him.
“The last two, actually the last three years, our Mike linebacker has led the Big Ten in tackles,” Zook said prior to the start of the 2009 season. “I don’t want to put the pressure on him that he’s not doing a good job if he doesn’t lead the Big Ten in tackles, but he’s a guy that a lot of things revolve around him, with our calls and so forth, and it’s going to be important that he has the kind of year that we think he can.”
For his part, Wilson seems up to the task.
“Coming in as the middle assignment linebacker I feel confident, I feel great about our defense,” Wilson said with a smile. “I’m looking forward to camp, the first game against Missouri. I’m ready, and I’m focused.”
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Paul Schmidt says
He’s going to be a big key on the defense, and if he can hold down the mike responsibilities, with his speed (he’s probably one of the two or three fastest guys on the team), he’ll be able to wreak some serious havoc on defense.
Yup, McCray’s the guy, and he ran up…what, like 180 yards on us last year when he played against us. He was happy to get some revenge.
And the Shannony Ryan thing was REALLY funny…not only was she the only female reporter there, she was the only PERSON at the table when he did. “Could you show me your scar, Martez? Oh, my!”
paulmbanks says
AS much as everyone wanted to talk about the stabbing on Media Day, I’m much more interested in what he does on the field this fall. Like it seems that he makes so many tackles with just his arms and raw athleticism. not from being able to make the right reads, adjustements and be in the right place to get low and drive his legs into opposing ballcarriers
It was kind of funny at Media Day when Martez lifted up his jersey to show his scar to Shannon..Only because she was the only female reporter there…so McCrary was the highly recruited guy from FLA that was all trouble and kicked off the team,right?
That moment would have been even better only if West was there to see it. I can just hear he voice now “PB LAWRYS!”
shnJns says
look martez is one of my closet friends he is like my brother. we sit and talk all the time & over the year i watch a boy become a man. you really have no idea what the stabbing & neck injury did 2 him. He is more hungry and focus then every before. he does care doubt the individual award and spotlight. he is all about winning football games & meaning the goal he set when hestep on camps day 1, “To help Illinois become one of the most respect football program in the country.”
i mean he doesn’t care about the individual awards and spotlight.
Well I hope he is that hungry and motivated, it can only be better for our program. I do hope this is THE YEAR for him. Illinois needs it.
I can’t begin to imagine what it’s like to be stabbed and then suffer a season ending neck injury in back to back years. I am a two time cancer survivor, and I have a scar as big as scars usually come on my chest. so I know physical pain.
Of course, I can’t say it’s a situation that you can compare to what he’s been through, on either side
and thank you for stopping by and reading. we appreciate it. spread the word
Paul S. says
Hey shnjhns….I hope it didn’t come off in the story like i was giving martez crap. couldnt be further from the truth. I totally respect what he has gone through, and it does seem like he has dealt with the adversity well as a person — that is really all you can ask for.
Yeah, I think you were respectful. admiring even
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Court hears how Benue lecturer allegedly raped 13-year-old Ochanya to death
A senior lecturer with the Benue State Polytechnic, Ugbokolo, Andrew Ogbuja has been arraigned before a State High Court in Makurdi.
He is accused of allegedly raping a 13-year-old girl, Ochanya Ogbanje to death.
Ogbuja’s arraignment came nearly a year after Ochanya’s death on October 17, 2018 from complications said to have resulted from her prolonged rape by him and his son, Victor, who is now at large.
The accused who was arraigned before Justice Augustine Ityonyiman of the State High Court 9, however, pleaded not guilty when the four-count charge bordering on rape and murder was read to him, according to the Nation.
The prosecuting lawyer, Mr. P. M. Ukande, Deputy Director, Public Prosecution, Benue State Ministry of Justice, consequently prayed the court to remand the accused and fix a date for proper trial having pleaded not guilty to all the charges preferred against him.
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Counsel to the accused, Mr. Abel Onoja, did not oppose the application for trial and therefore urged the court to make an order to compel the prosecution to ensure that medical experts named in the suit are physically brought before the court to testify during commencement of full trial.
“My Lord, I have a motion which seeks to compel the prosecution to produce medical experts who have been mentioned in the proof of evidence to be put on notice as to their physical appearance in court, so that they can testify when the trial commences,” Onoja pleaded.
The prosecuting counsel vehemently opposed the application brought before the judge saying, “it was wrong and premature for the defence counsel to come up with such application, hence, full trial was yet to commence.”
The trial judge, Justice Augustine Ityonyiman, while agreeing with the prosecution, overruled the defendant’s application, saying that, “it is premature.”
Subsequently, the court adjourned the suit to November 14, 2019, for commencement of trial.
Some of the charges read as follows:
“That you, Andrew Ogbuja, male and one Victor Ogbuja, your son who is now at large between 2013 and 2015 at your residence in Ugbokolo town, Okpokwu Local Government Area of Benue State within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court agreed to do illegal acts, to wit: severally rape one Elizabeth Ochanya Ogbanje from the age 7 to 13 years when she was placed under your care and same acts were done pursuant to the said agreement and you thereby committed an offence punishable under section 97 of the Penal Code, CAP. 124 Laws of Benue State, 2004.
“That you, Andrew Ogbuja, male and one Victor Ogbuja, your son who is now at large between 2013 and 2015 at your residence in Ugbokolo town, Okpokwu Local Government Area of Benue State within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court intentionally caused the death of one Elizabeth Ochanya Ogbanje, a minor, aged 13 years placed under your care and lived with your family in that between 2013 and 2015 when she was between 7-13 years old, you raped the said Elizabeth Ochanya Ogbanje severally as a result of which she died in October, 2017 of sexual abuse related disease and you thereby committed an offence punishable under section 222 of the Penal Code CAP. 124 Laws of Benue State, 2004,” among other counts.
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So, like, hi and stuff: welcome to another Wheel of Time Re-read!
Today’s entry covers Chapters 5 and 6 of Winter’s Heart, featuring INCANDESCENT RAGE and, uh, not a great deal else. Yay?
Previous re-read entries are here. The Wheel of Time Master Index is here, in which you can find links to news, reviews, and all manner of information regarding the newest release, The Gathering Storm, and for WOT-related stuff in general.
This re-read post contains spoilers for all currently published Wheel of Time novels, up to and including Book 12, The Gathering Storm. If you haven’t read, read at your own risk.
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Chapter 5: Flags
Young Bull runs across the plains, searching for his falcon. Hopper appears, and tells Young Bull that his she is not here, and he is too strongly in the Wolf Dream; he will die if he does not go back to his body. Young Bull ignores him, and Hopper knocks him down. Snarling, Young Bull lunges for Hopper’s throat, but Hopper jumps into the air, and Young Bull goes down again.
Hear me, cub! Hopper thought at him fiercely. Your mind is twisted with fear! She is not here, and you will die if you remain longer. Find her in the waking world. You can only find her there. Go back, and find her!
Perrin jolts awake, horrified that he just tried to kill Hopper in the Wolf Dream, where such a death would be final. He realizes he is in Berelain’s tent, and asks her if they’ve found Faile yet. Berelain is surprised he knows she is there (the tent would be dark to anyone else), but answers no; Perrin’s scouts have not returned, and Berelain’s have been found murdered. She opines that Arganda is a fool for also sending out patrols. Perrin realizes he is naked under the covers, and demands an explanation. Berelain tells him he and Tallanvor almost froze to death on the ridge, and no one but her had the nerve to approach him, as he “snarled like a wolf” at anyone who did. Berelain got him back here and got Annoura to Heal him, otherwise he would have lost toes to frostbite.
“She… She seemed afraid you might die even after she Healed you. You slept like a man already dead. She said you almost felt like someone who had lost his soul, cold no matter how many blankets were piled on you. I felt it, as well, when I touched you.”
Tamping down anger, Perrin observes that the Asha’man or Masuri or Seonid could have done the same, and Berelain asks why it matters. Perrin finds this extremely disingenuous of her, and requests his clothes. She points them out to him, and adds that she wants him to know that no one wants Faile to be alive more than she; Perrin thinks disgustedly that she even manages to smell honest, and tells her he needs food. She is disgusted with him in turn, but leaves, and Perrin struggles to find enough strength to put his clothes on. She returns before he finishes, but he refuses to hurry because she is watching, and she tells him food is on the way.
She sighed softly. “Perrin, I know you are hurting. There are things you might want to say that you can’t to another man. I can’t see you crying on Lini’s shoulder, so I offer mine. We can call a truce until Faile is found.”
“A truce?” he said, carefully bending to tug on a boot. Carefully so he did not fall over. Stout wool stockings and thick leather soles would have his feet warm soon enough. “Why do we need a truce?” She was silent while he donned the other boot and folded the turndowns below his knees, not speaking until he had done up the laces of his shirt and was stuffing it into his breeches.
“Very well, Perrin. If that is how you want it.” Whatever that was supposed to mean, she sounded very determined. Suddenly he wondered whether his nose had failed him. Her scent was affronted, of all things! When he looked at her, though, she wore a faint smile. On the other hand, those big eyes held a glint of anger.
She tells him that Masema had arrived at dawn, but with three or four thousand men instead of the hundred he’d agreed upon, which infuriates Perrin, but then goes on to tell him that Faile’s eyes-and-ears have found out that Masema has been meeting with Seanchan. She also compliments him on his misdirection re: Faile’s retainers, making Berelain think his “dried-up” secretary was his real spymaster, and Perrin tries not to stare in shock. Berelain also tells him her scouts were not killed by Aiel, either, unless Aiel have started using crossbows and axes; Perrin is angered that she didn’t mention this before now, and she laughs and replies she would have to “strip herself naked” to reveal any more. Perrin growls in disgust.
Eyeing him thoughtfully, she ran a fingertip along her lower lip. “Despite what you may have heard, you will be only the third man to share my bed.” Her eyes were… smoky… yet she might have been saying he was the third man she had spoken to that day. Her scent… The only thing that came to mind was a wolf eyeing a deer caught in brambles. “The other two were politics. You will be pleasure. In more ways than one,” she finished with a surprising touch of bite.
Perrin gapes at her. Berelain’s maid Rosene enters with food, having obviously overheard this, and though he is starving Perrin leaves without another word. She calls after him to “remember discretion,” loudly, and Perrin winces. Outside, Perrin realizes he has no idea where Masema’s men are, and goes over to where Berelain’s two maids and her two thiefcatchers are camping to ask directions. The thiefcatchers leave without a word to him, and the maids giggle vacuously and give him and Berelain’s tent significant glances; Perrin doesn’t know whether to “blush or howl.” Finally they wave him vaguely southeast, and Perrin stalks off to his own section of the camp to find that none of his scouts have returned. He contemplates the eagle and wolfhead banners, and thinks of the ruse Faile had suggested they were to throw off observers from his real purpose, and how he had planned to use them the same way with Masema.
Manetheren’s borders had run almost to where Murandy now stood, and with luck, he could have been into Andor, where Rand had a firm grip, before having to give up the deception. That was changed, now, and he knew the price of changing. A very large price. He was prepared to pay, only it would not be he who paid. He would have nightmares about it, though.
FLAMES. FLAMES, ON THE SIDE OF MY FACE.
Seriously? Seriously?
I cannot even deal with how much this makes me want to flail in metaphorical rage. And I hate it when I have to flail, you guys! It is not fun for anyone involved, I assure you! Especially if you happen to walk within arm’s reach!
*flail*
Agh. Okay, I am marginally in control now. MAYBE.
So, Berelain, flames, rage, flail, yes. To pull this bullshit now, of all goddamn times…
…Although, I suppose it is possible to look at this scene from Berelain’s perspective, and have quite a different view of Perrin than the super-omniscient one that we as readers enjoy. (Or, “have,” if not actually always “enjoy,” but anyway.) The issue of people continually overestimating Perrin’s skill in the Great Game is, after all, a knife that can cut both ways.
By which I mean, we know that Perrin is just being a giant clueless schmuck here, but if Berelain is under the impression that he is this very savvy political player, as seems to be indicated by her admiration of his “misdirection” re: Faile’s retainers, then I suppose it is quite possible for her to conclude that he is actually just fucking with her. And, I suppose, if I were her that would kind of piss me off, and make me want to retaliate.
I would like to think that if I were in this situation I would still not stoop so very goddamn low as she just did, of course. But—I suppose—acknowledging that, unlike us, Berelain does not have a magical window into the big dumb lunkness that is Perrin’s brain maybe gives her a tiny bit of an excuse.
Not a very BIG one, mind you. But a little bit.
Also, bad Perrin, being mean to Hopper! Jeez, with the pushing away from the wolves—or, to put it another way, from the one element that makes most of Perrin’s storylines awesome.
Bah. Moving on.
This is mostly a moot point by now, but I recall that Annoura (and Berelain’s) observations here about being able to tell Perrin’s soul wasn’t in residence in his body served back in the day to debunk a major Theory of Weirdness about Verin (Point #8 on this page). More parenthetically, one wonders how Randlandians differentiate soullessness from, say, shock or hypothermia, but whatever.
Chapter 6: The Scent of Madness
Perrin finds Dannil, and notes that the Two Rivers men avoid his eyes, he assumes because they are not sure what to say to his grief over Faile. Dannil confirms sourly that Masema’s men are gathering a couple of miles to the southeast, and that the lot of them look like they’d “skin their own mothers.” Perrin tells them to remember that that’s literally true, and tells them to make preparations to ride; they’re going to go overland until Perrin has a better idea of where he’s going, then have Grady or Neald make a gateway. Dannil knuckles his forehead and “Lord Perrins” him, as does Kenly Maerin, and Perrin grouses to himself about that until Gill approaches to tell him that Tallanvor has gone off on his own, claiming that he had permission from Perrin to do so. Perrin thinks him a fool even while wishing he was going with him, and lies to Gill that he’d given Tallanvor permission. He comments that Gill seems to want to go too, and Gill replies that he is “very fond” of Maighdin, though not like Tallanvor is; he smells vexed, and Perrin sighs and says he understands. Then he smells a very angry Lini behind him, and assures her that she’ll hear as soon as he does before asking for something to eat.
“Everyone’s eaten long since,” she snapped. “The scraps are gone, and the kettles cleaned and stored away. Sup from too many dishes, and you deserve a bellyache that’ll split you open. Especially when they’re not your dishes.” Trailing off into dissatisfied mutters, she scowled at him a moment longer before stalking away, glaring at the world.
Staring, Perrin wonders aloud what that was about, and Gill hems and haws and finally stammers that Lini went over to the Mayener camp this morning, and talked to one of Berelain’s maids, and… Perrin snarls at him that all he did was sleep in Berelain’s tent, and to tell Lini that; Gill agrees nervously and escapes, and Perrin is sure he isn’t going to say anything to Lini. Perrin thinks that no doubt this rumor is already all over camp, and suddenly the men avoiding his eyes earlier appears in a different light. He snaps meanly at Kenly when Kenly brings his horse, and then stands there with his head down until a delegation of Faile’s “young fools” approaches him, smelling angry and sulky. In the lead, Selande scowls at him and wants to know if they will get their horses back now. Perrin retorts that Aiel walk, or they can ride on the carts, and demands to know when they started spying for Faile, accusing them of being responsible for getting Faile kidnapped, which he knows even as he says it makes no sense. Selande refutes this furiously, declaring that they would all die for the Lady Faile; Perrin tells them they can have their horses back if they promise not to do anything “rash,” and let him decide how to rescue Faile when they find her, or he’ll “tie them in knots.” Selande scowls some more, but agrees; Perrin semi-apologizes in a sidewise way for his accusation, but they only glower at him and march off. An alarm goes up that Aiel are approaching, and Perrin snaps at everyone to relax; they are all Maidens and leading Alliandre’s horse, with three more mounted men (Seonid and Masuri’s Warders).
“I can barely make out they’re Aiel,” Dannil muttered, giving him a sidelong look. They all took it for granted that his eyes were good, even took pride in it—or used to—but he tried to keep them from knowing how good. Right then, he did not care, though.
He rides out to meet them, dreading what they have to tell him. Sulin smiles at him, and tells him Faile lives; as proof she gives him Faile’s dress, which has been sliced open but has no blood scent on it. Sulin goes on that from what they found, all the men in the party were killed, but Alliandre Kigarin, Maighdin Dorlain, Lacile Aldorwin, Arrela Shiego, and “two more” (meaning Bain and Chiad) have been taken gai’shain, which goes against custom but means they are alive. Shaking, Perrin repeats that they’ve only taken women, and another Maiden, Elienda, replies in shock that it’s not like that, and she’s sure they will be well-treated as long as they are meek. Perrin considers the odds of Faile pulling off “meek,” and asks which way they are going; Sulin replies south-southeast, and shows him the arrows they recovered at the scene, which indicate far too many Shaido than should be here, plus some from other clans.
They should all be bottled up in Kinslayer’s Dagger, five hundred leagues distant. But if some of their Wise Ones had learned to Travel… Maybe even one of the Forsaken… Light, he was rambling like a fool—what would the Forsaken have to do with this?—rambling when he had to think. His brain felt as weary as the rest of him. “The others are men who wouldn’t accept Rand as the Car’a’carn.” Those cursed colors flashed in his head. He had no time for anything but Faile. “They joined the Shaido.”
He asks how many Sulin thinks there are, and she shows him a doll which she says that Elyas said he smelled under the snow (to her startlement), and that he and Jondyn had found traces of the passage of a great many carts, which means an entire sept, possibly more than one. Each sept can have upwards of a thousand spears, and Sulin thinks the ones who took Faile are heading to meet them. Perrin considers the odds of meeting a thousand or more Aiel spears with his two thousand men, and tells Sulin they will head south. Sulin stops him to add that Elyas also found traces that indicate five to ten thousand armed cavalry are also heading south, and some of the tracks are clawed, and indicate no creature they are familiar with. Perrin thinks, so there are Seanchan too, and possibly Whitecloaks, too, from Balwer’s information, and repeats that they go south. They head back to the camp, Perrin trying unsuccessfully to clear his head, and gives Dannil et al the news, which they take stoically. He tells them they’ll be Traveling forty miles due south, and sends Neald to find Elyas and the scouts still out and tell them what’s happening, warning him to remember he can’t take on a dozen or more Wise Ones; Neald nods and leaves. Then Perrin announces that he needs to see Masema, and Dannil doesn’t think he should go, warning him that some of Masema’s men consider Perrin Shadowspawn, because of his eyes. The debate becomes moot when Masema himself appears, flanked by a hundred or so of his followers. They approach to within a few paces before Masema announces that he is here now, and that those who follow the Dragon Reborn (“the Light illumine his name!”) refused to be left behind, and he could not demand it of them.
Perrin saw a tide of flame rolling across Amadicia into Altara and perhaps beyond, leaving death and devastation behind. He took a deep breath, sucking cold into his lungs. Faile was more important than anything. Anything! If he burned for it, then he burned. “Take your men east.” He was shocked at how steady his voice was. “I will catch up when I can. My wife has been kidnapped by Aiel, and I’m heading south to get her back.” For once, he saw Masema surprised.
Masema considers, madness filling his scent, and then declares that he will accompany Perrin, as killing Aiel savages is “doing the Light’s work.” Perrin lies that he appreciates the offer, but he will be Traveling, and he knows how Masema feels about that. Masema’s men glare and mutter “Shadowspawn” at Perrin, but Masema only mutters that he (meaning Rand) would be upset if anything happened to Perrin’s wife, and tells Perrin that Masema will make an exception re: Traveling, just this once.
He spoke calmly—calmly for him—but his deep-set eyes were dark fire, his face contorted with unknowing rage.
Perrin opened his mouth, then closed it without speaking. The sun might as well rise in the west as Masema say what he just had. Suddenly Perrin thought that Faile might be safer with the Shaido than he was here and now.
*headdesk*
There, that’s done.
Interestingly enough, I have recently been watching (for the first time) the first season of Veronica Mars, and no this is not a non sequitur.
It’s a high school show (with a pretty interesting twist), and one of the dominant themes of the show (at least in the first season, please do not spoil me for later ones, or the end of the first one) is the way malicious rumors, deliberate misinformation, and indiscreet gossip can utterly ruin someone’s life, or at least change it irrevocably. So I hope you can see the relevance here to this chapter of WOT.
Vicious gossip is something of a trigger for me; few things can infuriate me more than seeing someone I care about get torn down and wounded through people’s gleeful readiness to believe the absolute worst interpretation of any given situation. I hardly think I am alone in this sentiment, but wow was I ready to smack Lini in the face for just buying that crap, hook, line, and sinker.
…Even while acknowledging that, all things considered, why shouldn’t she buy it? She’s known Perrin for what, a month? And he’s been pretty damn scary and non-squidgy for most of that time, to boot. So why would she have any reason to be firm in her belief of his integrity when it comes to marital affairs (or lack of them)? Especially given what she must know about noblemen in general in that arena?
Again, it’s the same problem as before; there’s no logical reason to expect non-omniscient characters to have the insight to know as well as we do how utterly absurd the tacit accusation of Berelain and Perrin sleeping together really is. And again, Occam’s Razor is a principle that can cut both ways. Is it easier to believe that it’s all an elaborate ruse on Berelain’s part to gain obscure revenge on a woman who’s currently miles away and in captivity, or that Perrin is a Typical Man™ and fell into bed for a comfort screw with a drop-dead gorgeous woman who’s obviously been after him for months, once his wife conveniently disappeared?
Sadly, it’s the latter. Goddammit.
Have I mentioned I hate this storyline?
Rand: Another mention of the swirly colors. Which I mention solely because it was the only thing that perked me up while reading this chapter. Mostly because I’m waiting for the moment when the colors start to come with video, since I can’t remember when that started, originally.
Masema: Still cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs. Yay? No, not yay.
Perrin really has lost it, being willing to let Looney Tunes and his merry men pillage off without him. Jeez. Though, that certainly would have uncomplicated a few things down the line, now that I think about it. Ah, I have grown cynical in my plotline-hating malaise, I see. Woe.
Something I left out of the summary was Perrin’s thought re: Masema meeting with the Seanchan, which was to wonder whether the nutbar was doing it in the deluded belief that he could make even the Seanchan heathens come to Jesus the Dragon. I don’t know (and honestly, can barely make myself care) whether we ever find out what Masema’s real objective was in playing footsie with the Seanchan, but I suppose this is as good (read: batshit insane) a reason as any, so let’s go with that, shall we?
And, yeah. Join me Friday, whydontcha, when we finally get off this crazy plotline for a minute? Yeah? Yeah! Toodles!
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Cadbury loses two battles over a shade of purple
Cadbury, the second largest confectionary brand in the world, has used the purple packaging as its trademark for the “Dairy Milk” chocolate since 1995. Despite Cadbury’s official rights in the Registered Trademark of the shade Pantone 2685C, there has been a long-running “candy war” with their top competitor and rival Nestle over its purple packaging trademark rights. Nestle protested against the trademark claiming that the trademark application failed to adhere to durability requirements and the sample color on the document could fade over time and discredit the accuracy of the trademark. It also stated that Cadbury’s trademark was imprecise and generated ambiguity. In April 2019, The UK Intellectual Property Office (IPO) rendered a decision favoring Nestle by rejecting two of Cadbury UK Limited’s more recent trade mark applications corresponding to the purple shade as applied to its chocolate products.
Cadbury has so far failed to amend description of their 1995 registration, considered to provide limited protection for the color with respect to the chocolate in a tablet form even after making several attempts in the past for their Trademark Protection by following the decision to allow their description under UK no. 3019362 stated as “the color purple (Pantone 2685C) as shown in the form of application, applied to the whole visible surface of the packaging of goods”.
The loss in the court of appeal has put Cadbury in an uncertain place, leading a way for rivals to further challenge them. More Visit: http://trademarkmaldives.com/
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Exclusive: McConnell-aligned PAC unleashes $6.4 million ad blitz to protect Senate majority
Fredreka Schouten
WASHINGTON – A super PAC aligned with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is unleashing a $6.4 million advertising onslaught on Tuesday as the fall midterm campaign begins in earnest.
The spending blitz by the Senate Leadership Fund includes $1.1 million in advertising in Tennessee, a deep-red state President Donald Trump won by 26 percentage points in 2016. But the Democratic Senate contender, former governor Phil Bredesen, has posted strong poll numbers in his race against GOP Rep. Marsha Blackburn for the Republican open seat, forcing GOP operatives to start spending heavily.
In all, the Senate Leadership Fund has budgeted $60 million for the midterms, according to figures provided first to USA TODAY. A nonprofit arm of the group, One Nation, already has spent $38 million.
Republicans have a narrow 51-49 advantage in the Senate, but Democrats hoping to seize the majority face a tough map in this election. Ten Democratic incumbents are seeking re-election in states Trump won.
In addition to Tennessee, the Senate Leadership Fund is targeting its TV, radio and digital ads in five other states this week, officials told USA TODAY. The group will spend $1.8 million in Missouri, $1.4 million in Indiana, $1 million in Nevada, $800,000 in West Virginia and $350,000 in North Dakota.
In a statement, Steven Law, who runs the super PAC, said Senate Democrats “have made clear their agenda is resistance and repeal of the 2016 election. Even Democrats in pro-Trump states have gone along with their party bosses, and we’re going to hold them accountable for it.”
One ad targets Democratic Sen. Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota, accusing her of “rubber-stamping” President Barack Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran. Another, entitled "Ally," touts Trump’s support of Republican Mike Braun, who is trying to unseat Indiana Democratic Sen. Joe Donnelly.
Although Republicans have the advantage in November’s Senate races, GOP strategists have expressed concern that Democrats could chart a path to the majority if the GOP stumbles in places such as Texas and Tennessee, where a recent NBC/Marist poll gave Bredesen a slight edge over Blackburn.
Tennessee voters have not elected a Democrat to the Senate since former Vice President Al Gore in 1990, but Bredesen is a former two-term governor who is emphasizing his moderate record.
“In Tennessee, honestly, Democrats found the one candidate in the entire state that allows them to be competitive here,” said Jennifer Duffy, who analyzes Senate races for the nonpartisan “Cook Political Report.”
But, Duffy said, Democrats “still have a bad map. They have to hold on to some really vulnerable seats.”
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Mother of Uber CEO Kalanick dies in boating accident
Marco della Cava
SAN FRANCISCO — The mother of Uber CEO Travis Kalanick has died in a boating accident, and her husband remains in serious condition.
The couple, Bonnie and Donald Kalanick, were boating on Pine Flat Lake near Fresno, Calif., Friday afternoon when their watercraft struck a rock and sank. Fresno emergency rescue personnel found Bonnie unresponsive, while her husband was flown to a nearby hospital.
The news, first reported in a tweet Saturday by New York Times reporter Mike Isaac, was confirmed by USA TODAY.
An Uber spokesperson said that
"last night Travis and his family suffered an unspeakable tragedy. His mother passed away in a devastating boating accident near Fresno and his father is in serious condition. Our thoughts and prayers are with Travis and his family in this heartbreaking time.”
The spokesperson also provided an email sent to employees Saturday by Uber HR boss Liane Hornsey. She vowed to keep the company's 12,000 employees updated, adding that "this is an unthinkable tragedy as everyone in the Uber family knows how incredibly close Travis is to his parents."
Kalanick has not commented on the accident. His last tweet was Friday, and simply read "Hello New York!"
In early May, he posted a photo on Twitter of himself with his parents at the Kentucky Derby.
On May 15, Kalanick posted a Mother's Day tribute to his mother on Facebook.
"As time goes on, I appreciate my mom, her infinite love and huge (heart emoji) more and more," Kalanick wrote. "Leaving Los Angeles (my home town) today, I already miss her. Happy Mother's Day to the best mom out there. Love ya Mom."
Kalanick was raised in Southern California and even moved back in with his parents north of Los Angeles when he was working on a series of startups that preceded Uber.
Recode's Kara Swisher posted an excerpt Saturday detailing her encounter with Kalanick and his mother a few years ago, which was subsequently cut from her Vanity Fair profile of the ride-hailing company's cofounder.
Wrote Swisher: “I was conflicted because I was happy he was home,” says his mother, Bonnie Kalanick, today. “He wore out a path walking in a circle of our kitchen and living room, always on the phone trying to make that company work.”
She gestures to show the route her son trod over and over in what is a small space. It’s a vivid memory still and her eyes tear up at the thought of every past setback that her first-born son has suffered. “She cries at a Hallmark commercial,” jokes her husband, Don Kalanick.
The Kalanicks were retired and had left the bustle of Southern California for the relative calm found inland. A Fresno County Sheriff's Department release called the Kalanicks a "local couple." His brother, Cory, is a fireman with the Fresno fire department.
The tragedy strikes just as Kalanick's company is facing a storm of criticism and scrutiny from some employees over an allegedly sexist and cut-throat work culture. A blog post written by former engineer Susan Fowler has led to an internal investigation by former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, whose results will be released in the coming weeks.
Follow USA TODAY tech reporter Marco della Cava on Twitter.
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Home AROUND THE WORLD China: Death toll from typhoon Lekima rises to 32
China: Death toll from typhoon Lekima rises to 32
The death toll from a typhoon in eastern China rose to 32 on Sunday, with 16 people missing, state broadcaster CCTV reported, as the country braced for more travel disruptions as the storm moved further north up the coast.
Typhoon Lekima made landfall early on Saturday in the eastern province of Zhejiang with winds gusting to 187 km (116 miles) per hour, causing travel chaos with thousands of flights canceled and rail operations suspended.
In Zhejiang, many of the deaths occurred about 130 km north of the coastal city of Wenzhou, where a natural dam collapsed in an area deluged with 160 mm (6.3 inches) of rain within three hours, causing a landslide.
The Ministry of Emergency Management said that more than one million people had been evacuated in Zhejiang and Jiangsu provinces and the financial hub of Shanghai due to the typhoon.
State media reports showed rescuers wading in waist-high waters to evacuate people from their homes.
Lekima, China’s ninth typhoon this year, is expected to make a second landing along the coastline in Shandong province, prompting more flight cancellations and the closure of some expressways.
It has already damaged more than 189,000 hectares of crops and 36,000 homes in Zhejiang, provincial authorities said, estimating the economic losses at 16.6 billion yuan ($2.35 billion), the state news agency Xinhua said on Sunday.
Xinhua reported that Qingdao city in Shandong issued a red alert for heavy rain on Sunday and shut all its tourist destinations to the public, adding that 127 trains and all long-distance bus services had been suspended.
Over 3,200 flights were canceled since Saturday, state broadcaster CCTV reported, although some suspensions on high-speed railway lines were lifted on Sunday.
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In July 2017, San Francisco joined New York City, Philadelphia, Delaware, Massachusetts, and Oregon in banning employers from asking applicants about their salary history. The “Parity in Pay Ordinance” prohibits San Francisco employers from using an applicant’s salary history in the hiring process or in determining what salary to offer an applicant. The city enacted its ordinance because “historical patterns of gender bias and discrimination repeat themselves” when employers consider applicants’ salary history in setting new hires’ salaries.
The ordinance broadly defines an “applicant” as a person applying for a job to be performed in the geographic boundaries of the city and whose application, in whole or part, will be processed or considered, whether or not through an interview, in the city. An “employer” is any individual, firm, corporation, partnership, labor organization or other organization that is or should be registered to do business in the city.
Prohibited Inquiries
An employer is prohibited from:
Directly or indirectly inquiring about an applicant’s “salary history” using any mode of communication, including application forms and interviews. The ordinance defines “salary history” as the applicant’s current and past salary (compensation, commission, and/or benefits) in the applicant’s current position or in a prior position.
Considering an applicant’s salary history as a factor in determining what salary to offer an applicant – even if the applicant voluntarily discloses his or her salary to the potential employer.
Refusing to hire, disfavoring, injuring, or retaliating against an applicant for not disclosing his or her salary history.
Releasing a current or former employee’s salary history to another employer without the employee’s written authorization.
An applicant may voluntarily disclose his or salary after an employer’s initial salary offer in order to negotiate a different salary.
Implementation and Enforcement
The ordinance becomes effective on July 1, 2018. The city’s Office of Labor Standards Enforcement (OLSE) is authorized to investigate possible violations and enforce the ordinance. An employee, applicant, organization or other person may report suspected violations to the OLSE. When the OLSE finds a violation has occurred, it may issue a warning and notice to correct or a penalty of $100, $200, or $500 (depending on whether it is a first of subsequent violation). OLSE may issue these penalties beginning on January 1, 2019.
Employers should review their policies and practices, including their interview forms and applications, to ensure they conform to the Parity in Pay Ordinance’s requirements. Contact your Vorys lawyer if you have questions about employment law compliance in California or about pre-employment inquiries generally.
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Carmen Farrish is a general assignments reporter for WAFB 9News.
Contact Carmen via email at cfarrish@wafb.com.
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Track fire latest in disastrous summer for MBTA, transit
Updated: 10:20 PM EDT Aug 23, 2019
Shaun Chaiyabhat
summer has been a disaster for the T. "because of an earlier track fire" Another day... another problem on the T. 35:44 its chaotic. its people panicking. 47 Hundreds... stranded... and angry. 31:18 its so dangerous. its so congest down there, people are shoving each other. its just not safe. 24 33:02 that is a failure of the system. and someone needs to be accountable and if its stephanie pollack she should be fired. charli baker, fire stephanie pollack right now. 10 This Orange line fire... the latest example of a crumbling system. Image after image... of evacuated riders... walking the rails on rocks. Ditching broken cars... And calling out.. a broken system. "jesus" 30:54 its always something different. seems like they're raising the price but the service is not getting any better. 00 -----OR---- 36:03 they just raised the prices again this summer and its still track issues between the red and the orange. 08 The list is growing. In June.. the Red Line derailment.. that caused delays for weeks and still needs repair. A month later... this fire on a trolley. Another on this Commuter rail. And this week... from a branch over the Green Line.. To a fire on the Orange.. Boston's Mayor tweeting.... "From fires to derailments, what we don't need is another example of the MBTA disrupting the commutes of residents and beyond. What we do need is critical investment now and improved public transportation for all." 11:07 we need the T to be hiring more engineers, more people in service, so that when things do break down we can fix them more quickly. 15 The T... says it's "committed to accelerating its capital improvement projects, whicH include major upgrades to subway track, power and signal infrastructure and all new fleets of trains." 11:52 we are in a transportation crisis and we need governor baker and the legislature to treat it like a crisis and take action immediately. 00 Here on Red Line... Signals are still not fully repaired. Work will continue until October. Live in Dorchester... SC WCVB NC5.
The MBTA said it was committed to accelerating its capital improvement projects, but passengers question if the system is actually getting any better.
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Crop circles — unusual patterns that appear mysteriously overnight in farmers' fields delight and intrigue various groups, from UFO researchers to mainstream scientist, the press and public alike.
The circles are in most cases located within the United Kingdom, however, there have been dozens of countries around the globe also reporting crop circle appearances for many decades. The strange phenomena has stimulated countless books, blogs, fan agencies, researchers (dubbed "cereologists") and even Hollywood films.
Despite having been studied for many years, the question remains: Who — or what — is making them?
No one can pinpoint the exact date that crop circle creation commenced here on planet Earth, but there are documented instances of large patterns appearing in fields – these created through the flattening of crops like wheat, barley or rye – these have become considerably more common from the Nineteen Seventies to today.
According to Wikipedia, 26 countries stated 10,000 crop circles in the final 1/3 of the twentieth century. About 90% of those were found in southern England.
The most intricate crop circles, which have baffled experts and fueled rumors of alien visitors.
Theories of fiendishly difficult mathematical formulas hidden in the crop circles which carry a message a hidden means of communication.
Other declare it all to be the work of hoaxers or as they prefer to name themselves.
Crop artist!
Richard Taylor believes that physics could provide the answer. He indicates that crop-circle artists might be using modern technology to help them create these patterns, the use of a Global Positioning System (GPS), in addition to lasers and microwaves, to create their mathematical patterns in the corn, once plotted out they flatten the crops with rope, planks of wood and bar stools tools which some hoaxers say they have used in the past.
Taylor suggests that artists could be using microwaves to make crop stalks fall over and cool in a horizontal position – a technique that might explain the speed and efficiency of the artists and the incredible detail of some patterns. One research team claims to have reproduced the intricate damage inflicted on crops using a handheld magnetron, readily available from microwave ovens, and a 12 V battery.
There have been many man-made circles, and similar to UFO sightings and X-planes (see the link above) those have detracted from the appearances of real crop circles and messages in wheat!
They also fail to give an explanation to the oldest sightings like the well-known mowing devil from 1678.
Just like today that occurrence was said to have occurred overnight in a field of oats, the oats appeared "neatly mowed" and "lay in the field".
Drawings from the time showing oval or circular rings in which the oat stems are laid neatly parallel to one another, with their heads away from the center, and apparently inclining towards an anti-clockwise swirl.
So which modern crop circles go beyond the capabilities of these hoaxers/artist?
Wiltshire.UK 2008 he most complex, "mind-boggling" crop circle ever to be seen in Britain was discovered in a barley field.
The formation, measuring 150ft in diameter, is apparently a coded image representing the first 10 digits, 3.141592654, of pi.
Michael Reed, an astrophysicist, said: "The tenth digit has even been correctly rounded up. The little dot near the center is the decimal point.
"The code is based on 10 angular segments with the radial jumps being the indicator of each segment.
It appeared in a field near Barbury Castle, an iron-age hill fort above Wroughton, Wilts, and was described by astrophysicists as "mind-boggling".
Lucy Pringle, a researcher of crop formations, said: "This is an astounding development - it is a seminal event."
Mathematical codes and geometric patterns have long been an important factor in crop circle formations. One of the best known formations showed the image of a highly complex set of shapes known as The Julia Set, 12 years ago.
The Julia set and the Fatou set are two complementary.The Julia set consists of values such that an arbitrarily small perturbation can cause drastic changes in the sequence of iterated function values.
These kaleidoscope like patterns are amazing could they be an indication of intelligent design?
But let’s not get off topic!
The phenomena of crop circles is not limited to the south west of England they have been found all over the world. A great place to find a constantly updated list is the website cropcirclecenter.com
The website contains images of patterns along with data on the frequency of crop circle appearances and photos, check it out.
One of the most detailed coming from 2002. The Chilbolton crop image more than circle, is one of the most fascinating out there.
It reveals an alien face as well as a coded message. After much time was spent on decoding the message, the following statement was revealed. “Beware the bearers of FALSE gifts and their BROKEN promises. Much PAIN but still time. (Damaged word). There is GOOD out there. We OPPOSE DECEPTION. Conduit CLOSING. (Bell sound).”
What does science have to say about this anomalies?
Well most aren’t brave enough to comment or research these appearances but an American PhD has.
He has dedicated his life to researching UFO crop circles says there are “puzzles” in them containing secret messages.
Dr Horace Drew, 61, was just 10 years old when he allegedly saw an unidentified, silver, windowless craft hovering in the sky near his suburban home, in Jacksonville, Florida.
The scientist, who holds a PhD in Chemistry from Caltech, the California Institute of Technology, and worked for CSIRO as a molecular biologist, has been researching crop circles and aliens for 20 years.
Dr Drew relocated to Australia in the 1980s but most of his work has taken him overseas, mostly to Europe.
He, along with many conspiracy theorists, believe crop circles are the work of aliens or human time travelers.
Dr Drew, investigated a number of legitimate crop circles which contained puzzles that can be decoded and linked to time travel and alien life.
In the research he has carried out for over 20 years he claims to have uncovered a major breakthrough, the discovery of a more advanced binary code than our computers currently use.
This was the code that was used to break the message hidden in The Chilbolton crop image from 2002.
This code containing message from either aliens or human time travelers, they are leaving the crop circles on Earth as messages to us or themselves, the Dr is unsure on who these message are meant to reach.
If the messages are from Aliens or those aliens are us from the future it seems as if they are trying to introduce themselves to us peacefully, like we do using bubbles with dolphins.
The dynamic between the way humans interact with dolphins and whales was likely comparable to how extraterrestrials attempt to communicate with us.
Hypothesized the Dr. Drew.
The idea of time travelers is a little less straight forward. The doctor explained.
Time travelers from the distant future could be creating the circles as directional markers, to help them navigate in their distant past, which is our present.
There are definitely humans living some 5000 years in our future with time travel capability,”
“They’re coming back and flying all over the Earth.
“They seem to just say ‘this is a certain day’ and mark it.
Maybe if they are marking these days we should find out why after all they could be historically important to those from the future and therefore vitally important to us!
The trouble is we don’t understand space time physics enough to comprehend what’s happening. It’s beyond our knowledge.”
So it would seem aliens or time travelers it makes no big difference, there is a message and we should try to decode it.
If it is aliens it could be a greeting or a warning, if it time travelers they must be marking that point in for some specific reason.
I guess we should start by sorting the real from the fake.
Telling the difference between a real crop circle and a hoax is like differentiating between an original painting and a fake, according to Dr Drew.
“There are some things to look for,” he said.
Crops that are bent “halfway up” their stems, rather than on the ground ,is one telltale sign “cereologists”, or someone that advocates paranormal explanations of crop circles, look for this to determine that it’s not a hoax.
“You can’t absolutely prove a crop circle wasn’t a hoax but you can give a high probability and judgment,” he said.
“If there’s a hoax the word of it gets around very fast, people are aware, people are not that easily fooled.”
Do think the world is being fooled are these crop circles nothing more than a big fat hoax?
Are they messages from future humans?
Are the aliens actually us from the future?
Let me know your thoughts in the comments below
Labels: Alien s, Alien Sentient Robots, Alien Species, alien war, Alien Weaponry, aliens, Aliens UFO's. Fake news., Crop circles.
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The ghosts and legends of Hornitos, CA
Thursday, August 04, 2011 ghost towns, ghosts, Hornitos, mother lode, paranormal 17 comments
The old Gagliardo & Co. Store in Hornitos, CA now acts as a gift shop.
Photo courtesy of Lewis Shorb, Ghost Town Explorers
About 13 miles west of Mariposa, CA on CR-J16 lies the small community of Hornitos. The community was founded by Mexican miners in 1848 and was soon populated by settlers evicted from the nearby mining town Quartzburg. Most of the evictees were of the "less desirable" type and almost overnight they changed the character of Hornitos and it quickly became known as a rough community. Soon the streets were lined with fandango halls, bars, gambling dens, and house of ill repute and it was rumored that many of the businesses were interconnected with underground tunnels. By the mid-late 1850's Hornitos had grown to small city with a population of some 6000 people. A thriving Chinese section formed to the east of town and housed some 2000 folk. Business was thriving as $40,000 in gold was shipped out on a daily basis.
Old adobe ruins with only the entry way and it's iron doors remaining.
But the town has a dark history to it as well. The town was so notorious for its daily gunfights that the dead outlaws were simply dumped into a deep gully called Dead Man's Gulch. Famed Mexican bandit, Joaquin Murieta, was said to frequent the fandango halls and was rumored to have been almost captured in the town in the 1850's.
Pacific Saloon (built 1851), one of the many bars that was in
Hornitos during its heyday.
Masonic Lodge built sometime in the 1850's.
Eventually the gold ran out and the miners who populated the town moved onto other places in search of riches. From a population of around 15,000 in 1879 it quickly dwindled down and around 1932 there were roughly 60 people living in Hornitos. Today the population is 75 people and Hornitos is considered one of the best preserved ghost towns in the Mother Lode country with ruins of an old Wells Fargo office, a Masonic Hall, an old jailhouse and even the store where D. Ghiradelli (famous maker of chocolate) got his start before moving to San Francisco.
The ruins of D. Ghiradelli's general store (circa 1856)
Not all of the original settlers of Hornitos have left and it's said that many still haunt the town, still searching for riches perhaps or not wanting to move on for some other reason.
Near the town square the ghosts of two prostitutes, who used knives and fought to the death over a miner, can still be felt to this day. The fight was over whose client he was and before the fight was over the miner had snuck off. When the proverbial dust had settled, one of the women lay dead on the street and the was other badly injured. It's said if you stand still in the town square and listen you can still hear the screams of the women as they fought and the cheers of the miners who stood around and watched.
The Hornitos jail house, rumored to be haunted by a former
inmate who died there.
The old jail house is also supposed to be haunted by a miner who was rumored to have died there. The brick jail is still standing today and is about 12 feet by 12 feet and has two 1 foot square windows. Accused of stealing a horse, he was placed in the town jail to await trial. Several drunk cowboys who just left one of the local saloons saw the miner in the jail and decided for some reason they were going to rescue him. They somehow convinced the miner if he tied a rope around his waist that they would pull him through the window and to freedom. The miner did so and the cowboys pulled and pulled but couldn't get him through the small opening. They pulled so hard that they eventually broke his back. The miner later succumbed to his injuries and died. His spirit has never been able to rest and can be felt walking around the jail today.
The local cemetery where a young girl's ghost is said to wander.
Another spirit, this one of a young Mexican girl, haunts the local cemetery. She died at a young age of an unnamed epidemic and for some reason wasn't given a proper burial but instead was buried on top of the ground and then bricks and stones were placed over her body. Through the years tourists have taken theses stones and bricks from her grave. From time to time she is seen searching the cemetery, looking for the stones and bricks that covered her grave.
St. Catherine's Catholic Church, built sometime in the 1860's.
These aren't the only ghosts that roam the streets of Hornitos, but they do have their own stories. Other ghosts have been seen but their story hasn't been told yet.
Near Givins Gulch a woman has been seen roaming the area just before sunrise with a spear sticking out of her head.
Another female ghost has been seen with a plastic bag tied around her head in Hornitos Park just before dawn.
Late at night a figure can sometimes be seen on the top of Bullion Hill gazing out over the landscape.
The ghost of a young confederate officer can frequently be seen next to the Cotton Arm creek and it appears as if he is struggling with something.
Also the spirit of a male figure can be seen dragging something from Corbet Creek sometime after midnight.
Whether these ghost stories are true or not, one thing is for certain. Hornitos is rich in history. Both from the gold rush era and also rich in ghost stories. Hornitos makes a great day trip for those who have never been to a ghost town before and its a chance to check out some of our local area history that many don't know about.
I want to thank Lewis Shorb over at Ghost Town Explorers for allowing me to share the photos he took of Hornitos for this article. You can check out his article on Hornitos here.
Robby French said...
My team is ready to roll into this little nugget of paranormal research! Anyone out there have any tips or want to collaborate?
Pretty much what I shared in the story is what's out there on the internet, how much of it is true is hard to say. I want to take a day trip up there and talk to some of the people and see if they have any stories.
But if you go up there Robby let me know what happens. Curious as to what's really there.
I grew up in Hornitos, our house right on the creek. From time to time you could hear "clanking" come from the creek at night. There is an eerie feeling about the town if you walk through it at night. We had numerous "incidents" at our house growing up. Two candle stick holders, on opposite sides of our fire place flew off the wall simultaneously. Too many to mention. Great place to check out if you are looking for spirits. Especially in the cemetary.... Good luck!
Grew up there when my Granparents bought the Bridge Cafe! My parents eventually followed and I went to Kindergarten there & we moved back to LA area! I spent almost every vacation here & when I got my license I would come up weekends also! Dad & mom bought a few parcels of land across the creek & eventually built their beautiful home!We bought a few horses! We went frogging in the middle of the night...fished the backside of McClure...got scared in the graveyard many nights...running home scared! Sleeping in the bed of Granpas old Chevy truck...counting the zillion Stars! Great memories...❤
My great grandfather supposedly is one of the first settlers there. He owned the Palm Bar. I have a picture of him standing behind the bar. There are also several cowboy type men standing in the room, and a group seated at a table playing cards.
Teri Grady said...
My grandma grew up there in the 30's! She said at night that drunks would ride through on horses and shoot up the town!
I think she said there were only like 60 or 70 people living there at the time. When she graduated high school, she was the only senior.
Sofia Aguayo said...
Hi my name is Sofia, my mom is Sofia Osborn her dad was Albert Jackson Osborn. I believe your grandfather is Jean Osborn?
My mom was just telling me about how she used to spend the summers in Hornitos.
Margaret-Anne Moore said...
I have always wanted to visit Hornitos but have not been able to do so. I particularly like the photos Otheto Weston took for "Mother Lode Album."
A lot of murders went on in that town. It was a really rowdy place in the early days. Chinese and Mexicans miners were murdered on a regular basis. A guy named China John was murdered while he was in jail. It is no surprise that there are this many ghosts there!
More information about Hornitos and some of the murders: http://pnwphotoblog.com/hornitos-california/
Anita Black said...
I am not surprised there are so many ghosts there. This site;http://pnwphotoblog.com/hornitos-california/ talks about some of the murders there. A lot of racism back in the day, along with alcohol no doubt caused a large number of issues!
gary leopold said...
A great time to visit Hornitos is the first Saturday of October any year. They have an annual flea market and most of the towns buildings are open to the public. Come the night before and camp out by the church on the hill... if you dare.
Dorothy Smith said...
My great grandparents lived there their whole lives so did my father their last name is Hauhuth my fathers is Smith.I my father moved back into the same house he grew up in. I spent all my summers there with my sister Kwanlea love this little town scary at night especially the strip by the hanging tree between the town n the fire station. Going this summer it's been 24 years wow probably hasn't changed a bit. Oh ya my great grandparents' tv the first in the town is in the jail/museum.
The place is evil man u can sense it, we drank at the bar there one day, when we left the bar my moms cadillac was filled with flies all over it, we drove around town and stopped at a old ruined house and i told my mom i had to go number one, so i walked to find a spot i was wearin black slippers and i accidentally stepped on a rusty nail stickin up on a piece of wood, i felt it go in my foot deep and i told my wife and mom what happened and when i took my sock off their wasnt even a scratch, i know i stepped on the nail
We have travelled to this remarkable area of California many times most recently May 2017. Hornitos is fascinating. Felt nothing but peace standing near the old church. We wish to retire in this area someday and add to it's glorious history.
BobbiJ said...
Hey Sofia I remember your mom and of coarse Uncle Albert. My grandparents were Gene and Bea Osborn and they owned the bridge Cafe
Tiffanie Reynolds said...
I love the way the sunsets over that little town its so amazing ive never been able to get out of the car at night though im a chicken especially by the grave yard but the day time no problem. Bear valley neat too and another haunted place raymond ca
When I was about kindergarten age my parents and I lived in an air stream behind where the post office is and I can remember one night we were just falling asleep and we were awoken by the sounds of a number of people talking outside, now anybody familiar with hornitos know that it's as quiet as a grave at night,well my dad got up and went outside with a flashlight only to discover that nobody was there. These voices were right outside our windows and yet not one person could be found. It gives me chills even now to remember it.
Check out some Fresno roller derby this weekend.
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A Tiny Art Museum Is Headed To The Moon In 2021
By Megan Harris, Kiley Koscinski & Kevin Gavin • Jun 27, 2019
The unmanned robotic rover that will travel to the moon in 2021. The CMU project is about four pounds, and the size of a shoebox.
90.5 WESA's "The Confluence" for Thursday, June 27, 2019
On today’s program: A conversation with a pioneer of the space art movement about the first museum on the moon; Pennsylvania rivers get a second life as recreation hubs; the commonwealth's clean slate law gives second chances; researchers at Magee-Womens Research Institute are developing a new mesh for pelvic prolapse; and a sneak peek of WYEP Summer Music Fest.
Art that's out of this world
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Capturing the essence of humanity in an 8-ounce work of art is no small feat, but that’s exactly what the team of artists who created the MoonArk are trying to do. Their project will travel to the moon in 2021 aboard a 4-pound robotic rover built by Carnegie Mellon University.
Lowry Burgess, a professor emeritus of art and former dean of CMU's College of Fine Arts, is a founding member of the MoonArk team and a pioneer of the space art movement.
“We’re sending something to the moon that represents the best of us,” he says of MoonArk, whose four chambers include hundreds of images, poems, music and artifacts.
MoonArk may be the first museum on the moon, but it is not the first piece of art to travel outside Earth’s atmosphere. Burgess’ own work, “Boundless Cubic Lunar Aperture,” was the first non-scientific payload taken to outer space in 1989. Burgess says humans should continue to sending art into space.
“When humans go into space, we bring our whole culture with us,” he says. “Space is not just an empty thing out there. It’s longing for life and longing for our love, and we are loving it.”
River cleanups create new opportunities
Discharge of iron and other metals from coal mines has plagued watersheds in Pennsylvania for decades, including the Kiski-Conemaugh River Watershed, which lies less than 100 miles outside of Pittsburgh and feeds into the Allegheny River.
The Kiski River is no longer bright orange with pollution and discharge, reports The Allegheny Front’s Andy Kubis. It’s now used for recreation, like the annual Stony-Kiski-Conemaugh Rivers Sojurn. Kubis joined the expedition on the last day of their four-day trip to learn more about the river’s environmental impact.
Clean Slate offers a new start
Pennsylvania’s Clean Slate law seals arrest records for people who have been arrested and charged but never convicted; those with non-violent misdemeanor convictions; and those with summary offense like harassment and disorderly conduct. The next phase of the law goes into effect Friday and will automatically seal the records of more than 40 million Pennsylvanians. WHYY’s Aaron Moselle reports that this law is already having transformative effects for eligible people, better positioning them for jobs and housing.
New surgical material could help solve pelvic prolapse
An estimated one-third of women experience pelvic prolapse in their lifetime, according to Dr. Pamela Moalli, professor of obstetrics and gynecology at UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital. More than 12% of women will get surgery, often using surgical mesh, to fix the problem. But that mesh can fail and become dislodged by activities like running and jumping. Dr. Moalli and Dr. Steven Abramowitch, associate professor of bioengineering at the University of Pittsburgh’s Swanson School of Engineering, have teamed up to create a biomechanical solution. They tell The Confluence's Megan Harris that they're working on new mesh materials to be used in surgery.
WYEP's Summer Music Festival returns Saturday
WYEP is hosting their Summer Music Festival on Saturday at Schenley Plaza in Oakland. WYEP music director and midday host Kyle Smith says performers include local and national talent, including Pierce Dipner, Elias Khouri, Nevada Color and DeVotchKa, plus a lineup of craftspeople, a picnic contest and more. Find the full lineup here.
90.5 WESA's Julia Zenkevich, Julia Maruca and Hannah Gaskill contributed to this program.
The Confluence, where the news comes together, is 90.5 WESA’s daily news program. Tune in weekdays at 9 a.m. to hear newsmakers and innovators take an in-depth look at stories important to the Pittsburgh region. Find more episodes of The Confluence here or wherever you get your podcasts.
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New Agreement Doesn't Mean All Highmark Insurance Plans Will Include UPMC Access
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Carnegie Library Employees Take First Step Toward Creating Union
By Ariel Worthy • Jun 24, 2019
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A colorful makeshift book drop box sat in front of the podium in the lobby of the United Steelworkers building in downtown Pittsburgh on Monday evening. One by one, employees stated their names and positions with the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh system. They then dropped their signed union cards in the drop box.
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On today’s program: Artworks by artists of color open in a new exhibition Saturday; Carnegie library workers take steps in unionize; and a debate between the ACLU of Pennsylvania and the Center for Victims about Marsy’s Law.
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Why brands should avoid pinkwashing at all costs
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Annual Pride celebrations around the world are getting bigger, thanks in part to support from brands, but, says an ex-director of communications for Pride in London, if they’re doing no more than adopting the LGBT+ community’s rainbow logo, they’re just pinkwashing.
Writing in the current issue of Admap (topic: smart approaches to occasion marketing), Asad Dhunna, who’s also the founder of strategic marketing communications consultancy The Unmistakables, observes how London’s Pride parade has turned into Pride month.
“You can’t miss the various Pride paraphenalia that goes on sale during that period,” he adds, but many brands are effectively benefiting without putting money into the event.
Or, worse, they may be putting a rainbow on a product which has LGBT inequality baked into the supply chain – something Primark was forced to address in 2018 when its Pride range of clothing was revealed as being made in Turkey, a country where LGBT people still face discrimination.
“You wouldn’t stick a Fairtrade logo on your product without adapting your supply chain, and the rainbow flag should be no different,” Dhunna states.
“Brands that engage in Pride without carrying the receipts from their involvement will continue to be called out by a community that carries a collective memory of all that has gone before.”
He highlights brands such as Budweiser, Barclays and Tesco which have worked internally and with their agencies to commit to taking part.
The origins of partnerships start out in the LGBT employee group or in the HR team, he says, but marketers have cottoned on to this opportunity and have developed campaigns around Pride.
These types of initiatives are proving profitable and problematic in equal measure for brands, Dhunna reports, citing as an example of the latter Budweiser’s colour-coded cups, each of which was supposed to represent a different aspect of the diversity within the LGBT+ community. But not everyone was persuaded by the beer company’s take, some suggesting it diluted the whole point of Pride.
“Becoming a brand partner isn’t for the faint hearted,” Dhunna acknowledges, “but it is the best way to get a true and authentic understanding of the community.”
For more details, read the full article: A new era for Pride and LGBT+ marketing. This issue of Admap on partnering for growth features a series of eight articles. WARC subscribers can access a deck which summarises the expert advice from contributors and key considerations on the topic.
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Paddy Power: Rainbow Russians
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AIG Japan partners with New Zealand’s All Blacks in brand purpose drive
Insurance giant AIG partnered with New Zealand’s world champion All Blacks and Black Ferns rugby teams to launch its pro-LGBT diversity campaign in conservative Japan.
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Working with Traumatic Brain Injury in Schools: Transition, Assessment, and Intervention - School-Based Practice in Action (Hardback)
Paul B. Jantz (author), Susan C. Davies (author), Erin D. Bigler (author)
Every day, children and adolescents worldwide return to the educational setting having sustained a traumatic brain injury (TBI). The possible negative consequences of TBI range from mild to severe and include neurological, cognitive, emotional, social, and behavioral difficulties. Within the school setting, the negative effects of TBI tend to persist or worsen over time, often resulting in academic and social difficulties that require formal and informal educational assistance and support. School psychologists and other educational professionals are well-positioned to help ensure students with TBI receive this assistance and support.
Working with Traumatic Brain Injury in Schools is a comprehensive practitioner-oriented guide to effective school-based services for students who have experienced a TBI. It is primarily written for school-based professionals who have limited or no neurological or neuropsychological training; however, it contains educational information that is useful to professionals with extensive knowledge in neurology and/or neuropsychology. This book is also written for parents and guardians of students with TBI because of their integral role in the transition, school-based assessment, and school-based intervention processes. Chapter topics include: basic brain anatomy and physiology; head injury and severity level classifications; biomechanics of injury; injury recovery and rehabilitation; neurological, cognitive, emotional, behavioral, social, and academic consequences; understanding community-based assessment findings; a framework for school-based assessment (TBI-SNNAP); school-based psychoeducational report writing, and school-based interventions; monitoring pharmacological interventions; and prevention. An accompanying website includes handouts, sample reports, and training templates to assist professionals in recognizing and responding to students with TBI.
"The lack of understanding of brain injury among educators is a significant problem, and this text takes a monumental step in addressing it. Readers of Working with Traumatic Brain Injury in Schools will gain a well-rounded knowledge of brain injury, assessment needs, and intervention strategies. These authors have written a comprehensive and outstanding text. Schools, as well as any college instructor looking for a solid text for teaching future educators, will find that this book is a good place to start."
-Dale Starcher, PhD, clinical director at Garfield Park Academy, Compass School Reentry Program for Brain Injury
"Working with Traumatic Brain Injury in Schools is a tremendous resource for teachers, school psychologists and all related service providers working with students following TBI, as well as for university faculty preparing future educators in personnel preparation programs."
-Ann Glang, PhD, director of the Center on Brain Injury Research and Training at the University of Oregon
"Working with Traumatic Brain Injury in Schools should be the 'turn to' book for the school-based practitioner. The organization and format of the text provides for a quick reference to and detailed presentation of the collective scientific knowledge surrounding TBI and recovery. Chapters addressing educational interventions and accommodations provide practical solutions for affected students, their parents, and teachers. It's also an extremely timely book, given the current focus on sports-related concussions, baseline concussion testing, and decision-making post injury."
-J. Lane Valum, PhD, coordinator of school psychologists in Canyons School District in Sandy, Utah
"Working with Traumatic Brain Injury in Schools is an excellent and up-to-date resource on brain injury and its aftermath, one that provides a well thought out and practical roadmap for school psychologists and educators committed to supporting students upon their return to school after an injury."
-Nadine Metro, PsyD, district TBI consultant and educator in Ridle School District in Folsom, Pennsylvania
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Marathon County reaches settlement with administrator Karger over role in Dylan Yang rally
According to an agreement, to be considered by the Marathon County Board Thursday, the county will pay Karger $8,600 for lost wages.
Marathon County reaches settlement with administrator Karger over role in Dylan Yang rally According to an agreement, to be considered by the Marathon County Board Thursday, the county will pay Karger $8,600 for lost wages. Check out this story on wausaudailyherald.com: https://www.wausaudailyherald.com/story/news/2019/08/20/dylan-yang-fallout-marathon-county-settles-brad-karger-rally/2061700001/
Laura Schulte, Wausau Daily Herald Published 1:06 p.m. CT Aug. 20, 2019
Brad Karger said county board members should consider firing him if they’ve lost confidence in him. (Photo: T'xer Zhon Kha/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin)
WAUSAU - Marathon County could pay administrator Brad Karger nearly $8,600 to avoid a potential lawsuit over his 2016 suspension for participating in a rally supporting a teenage homicide defendant.
Karger, 61, is set to retire on Dec. 30 after serving 11 years as administrator, the county's top executive. According to an agreement included in materials for a Marathon County Board meeting this week, Karger would be paid $8,599, which is equal to the lost wages during his 30-day unpaid suspension.
The agreement notes that Karger's request was considered because of his service since the suspension, his pending retirement and the desire to avoid litigation and its potential costs.
Karger was suspended without pay in July 2016 after he joined a controversial demonstration that supported Dylan Yang, a teenager convicted of reckless homicide. Complaints from Sheriff Scott Parks and then-Wausau Police Chief Jeff Hardel about Karger's participation in the demonstration launched a County Board investigation.
As part of the deal he reached with the board, the document notes, Karger is not able to discuss or post to social media about the agreement. If he is contacted about the issue, he can't comment other to say that the matter was resolved.
The board is scheduled to discuss the agreement at its 7 p.m. Thursday meeting at the Marathon County Courthouse and vote on the deal during its Aug. 27 meeting.
During an early July interview with a Wausau Daily Herald reporter, Karger said he was glad that the suspension was behind him.
"I can see things that I could have done better, but that's with anything," he said. "I had to put it out of my mind. If I focus on that, I have to leave now."
He said he gives credit to County Board members and Chairman Kurt Gibbs for putting the incident behind them after his suspension was lifted, and allowing him to move forward.
Gibbs did not return a request for an interview Tuesday afternoon.
T'xer Zhon Kha/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Hundreds of demonstrators, including Marathon County Administrator Brad Karger (in suit), rally May 31 in a peace march inspired by the guilty verdict against 16-year-old Dylan Yang, who was convicted of homicide in March. Marchers walked past the Wausau Police Department, the Wausau School District's administration building and the Marathon County Courthouse. (Photo: T'xer Zhon Kha/USA TODAY NETWORK)
The march for Yang, which drew hundreds of demonstrators to downtown Wausau, was held on May 31, 2016 and called for fairness in the justice system and anti-bullying efforts in schools. Many attendees insisted that Yang, who was 15 when arrested, was not treated fairly in the court system because he's Hmong and that he should have been tried as a juvenile, rather than as an adult. Yang was sentenced to 13 years for the stabbing death of 13-year-old Isaiah Powell.
The stabbing happened after the two boys clashed on social media and then in a physical fight near Yang's home. Powell died that night.
The County Board debated for hours over the suspension in 2016, and while some officials said Karger should be fired, the board ultimately decided to keep him at the helm. As a part of that agreement, Karger was required to apologize to all police departments in Marathon County and make a statement to the public.
Members of the community wrote letters and signed a petition asking that Karger be reinstated, but the County Board upheld the suspension after a reconsideration vote at the end of July 2016.
Karger considered legal action at the time but never pursued a lawsuit. He also asked board members to consider paying him cash to leave his job if they had lost confidence in his ability to lead the county.
Contact Laura Schulte at 715-496-4088 or leschulte@gannett.com. Follow her on Twitter @schultelaura.
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Pot legalization could be on November ballot
I-Team Reporter
WEBVTT DEMAND.>> LET THE PEOPLE VOTE.DAVID: LEGALIZING MARIJUANA INMARYLAND IS NO LONGER A PIPEDREAM, NOT TO THESE FOLKSANYWAY. THIS IS CANNABIS LOBBYING DAY INANNAPOLIS. ADVOCATES, GOING DOOR TO DOOR,CALLING ON LAWMAKERS TO SUPPORTA MEASURE ALLOWING VOTERS TODECIDE THE ISSUE ON THE NOVEMBBALLOT.IF PASSED, THE STATECONSTITUTION WOULD BE AMENDEDLEGALIZING MARIJUANA.>> THE BILL BASICALLY SAYS YESOR NTHAT'S THE QUESTION BEFOREVOTERS ON THE ISSUE OF USING,POSSESSING, GROWING SMALLAMOUNTS.DAVID: ADVOCATES SEE 2018 AS THETIPPING POINT AS MORE STATES, 8SO FAR, LEGALIZE POT THEY POINT TO PUBLIC POLLSINDICATING TABOOS AGAINSTSMOKING MARIJUANA HAVE GONE UPIN SMOKE.>> THE POLL NUMBERS, BOTH INMARYLAND AND NATIONWIDE, SHOWTHE PUBLIC IS BROADLY SUPPORTIVEOF LEGALIZATION NOW.DAVID: THE MEASURE REQUIRESTATE REGULATION OF POT, NOTONLY FOR PUBLIC HEALTH REASONS,BUT TO TAX THE SALE OF ITHE CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TOSMOKE IT DOES NOT APPLY TODRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCELAWS, NOR DOES IT REQUIREEMPLOYERS TO ALLOW USING IT INTHE WORKPLACTHE FEDS STILL CONSIDERMARIJUANA ILLEGAL.>> WHAT A.G. SESSIONS ACTUALDID WAS TO RESCIND THE CALL MEMOAND PUT THE DISCRETION BACK INTHE HANDS OF THE LOCAL U.S.ATTORNEYS.DAVID: STILL, STATE HOUSELEADERS DON'T BELIEVE THELEGISLATION WILL MOVE THIS YEAR.>> THE BILL IS PROBABLY NOTCOMING OUT THIS YEAR.IT'S JUST A MATTER OF TIMING.MY PERSONAL FEELINGS ASIDE, WEHAVE MEDICAL MARIJUANA THAT HASJUST COME ONLINE, SO WE'RESTILL IRONING OUT ISSUES WITHTHAT, AND THEY ARE NOTINSIGNIFICANDAVID: STATE HOUSE LEADERS SAY APUSH TO DECRIMINALIZE AS MUCH ASAN OUNCE OF POT HAS A SHOT, BUAT THIS TIME THEY ARE NOT READY
Maryland lawmakers are once again considering legislation to legalize marijuana. The bill being introduced this week in the House will put the question on this November's ballot, letting voters decide.Wednesday was Cannabis Lobbying Day in Annapolis. For those in attendance, legalizing marijuana in Maryland is no longer a pipe dream. Advocates went door to door, calling on lawmakers to support a measure allowing voters to decide the issue on the November ballot. If passed, the state constitution would be amended to legalize marijuana. "The bill basically says 'yes or no.' That's the question before voters on the issue of using, possessing and growing small amounts," said Del. David Moon, a lead sponsor of the bill. Advocates see 2018 as the tipping point, as more states are legalizing pot. Eight states have legalized it so far. Advocates point to public polls, indicating taboos against smoking marijuana have gone up in smoke. "The poll numbers both in Maryland and nationwide show the public is broadly supportive of legalization now," Moon said. The measure requires state regulation of pot, not only for public health reasons, but to tax the sale of it. The constitutional right to smoke marijuana does not apply to driving under the influence laws, nor does it require employers to allow using it in the work place. The federal government still considers marijuana illegal. "What A-G Sessions actually did was simply put the prosecution discretion back in the hands of the local U.S. attorneys," said Kate Bell, of the Marijuana Policy Project. Still, State House leaders don't believe the legislation will move this year. "(The) bill is probably not coming out this year. It's just a matter of timing. My personal feelings aside, we have medical marijuana that has just come online, so we're ironing out issues with that. and they are not insignificant," said Sen. Vobby Zirkin, chair of the Judicial Proceedings Committee. State House leaders said a push to decriminalize as much as an ounce of pot has a shot, but they are not prepared at this time to legalize, regulate and tax marijuana.
ANNAPOLIS, Md. —
Maryland lawmakers are once again considering legislation to legalize marijuana. The bill being introduced this week in the House will put the question on this November's ballot, letting voters decide.
Wednesday was Cannabis Lobbying Day in Annapolis. For those in attendance, legalizing marijuana in Maryland is no longer a pipe dream.
Advocates went door to door, calling on lawmakers to support a measure allowing voters to decide the issue on the November ballot.
If passed, the state constitution would be amended to legalize marijuana.
"The bill basically says 'yes or no.' That's the question before voters on the issue of using, possessing and growing small amounts," said Del. David Moon, a lead sponsor of the bill.
Advocates see 2018 as the tipping point, as more states are legalizing pot. Eight states have legalized it so far.
Advocates point to public polls, indicating taboos against smoking marijuana have gone up in smoke.
"The poll numbers both in Maryland and nationwide show the public is broadly supportive of legalization now," Moon said.
The measure requires state regulation of pot, not only for public health reasons, but to tax the sale of it.
The constitutional right to smoke marijuana does not apply to driving under the influence laws, nor does it require employers to allow using it in the work place.
The federal government still considers marijuana illegal.
"What A-G Sessions actually did was simply put the prosecution discretion back in the hands of the local U.S. attorneys," said Kate Bell, of the Marijuana Policy Project.
Still, State House leaders don't believe the legislation will move this year.
"(The) bill is probably not coming out this year. It's just a matter of timing. My personal feelings aside, we have medical marijuana that has just come online, so we're ironing out issues with that. and they are not insignificant," said Sen. Vobby Zirkin, chair of the Judicial Proceedings Committee.
State House leaders said a push to decriminalize as much as an ounce of pot has a shot, but they are not prepared at this time to legalize, regulate and tax marijuana.
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COACHWHIPS- Hands On The Controls - LP - CASTLE FACE RECORDS
Reissue and for the first time ever on vinyl, originally released in 2002, now with the addition of 6 never before released bonus-tracks! For those unfamiliar, the COACHWHIPS were a threepiece-band existing from 2001 to 2005, including John Dwyer (now THEE OH SEES), playing raging and blasting Garage-Trash-Punk. LP comes with a download-code included as well.
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DUDS- Of A Nature Or Degree - LP - CASTLE FACE RECORDS
Debut album from Manchester Post-Punk band DUDS. Actually sounding like they could've been an early 80s band from either Edinburgh or Bristol as well... That means: Their sound is reminiscent of bands like the FIRE ENGINES and JOSEF K, but as well of MAXIMUM JOY and ELECTRIC GUITARS. But with an inventive approach and variation, being experimental (in the widest and best sense) in similar veins as the MEKONS, THE EX or XTC. https://dudsdudsduds.bandcamp.com/album/of-a-nature-or-degree
LA MACHINE - Phases & Repetition - LP - CASTLE FACE RECORDS
For the first time on vinyl, 7 tracks previously released as a cassette, from short-time project with Rick Pelletier (SIX FINGER SATELLITE, CHINESE STARS). Minimalist dub-drones, repetitive and psychedelic, with bass, drums and distorted vocals. Influenced by CHROME, SUICIDE and PIL. https://www.facebook.com/ProvidenceLaMachine
OH SEES- Orc - CD - CASTLE FACE RECORDS
THEE OH SEES are now simply named OH SEES again (like back in their very early days). But the line-up still remains the same as on the previous albums, with two drummers, and Brigid Dawson as a second singer. Contains 10 songs, from raging Garage-Pop smashers over Glam-Rock to psychedelic Noise monsters.
Listen to the full album here: https://youtu.be/nJfBATT0Ins
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PRETTIEST EYES- Pools - LP - CASTLE FACE RECORDS
Pretty amazing band from Los Angeles! Punching Post-Punk, that's as psychic, paranoid and crazed out as it's supposed to be. And flavoured with crushing synth-sounds, their music can be described as a melange of roots and vibes deriving from bands like SCREAMERS, SUICIDE, SAVAGE REPUBLIC as well as BIRTHDAY PARTY. https://prettiesteyes.bandcamp.com/
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Remember The Cyclist Who Flipped Off Trump's Motorcade? She Just Won A Virginia Election.
Jennifer Bendery
HuffPost November 6, 2019
WASHINGTON ― Juli Briskman, who famously flipped off President Donald Trump’s motorcade in a viral 2017 photo, won her race Tuesday night for a seat on the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors in Virginia.
Briskman, a former marketing executive and local Democratic activist, unseated eight-year incumbent Republican Suzanne Volpe. She will represent the Algonkian District on the board, which serves more than 400,000 residents.
It is her first stint in public office.
Juli Briskman shows her middle finger as a motorcade with President Donald Trump departs Trump National Golf Course in Sterling, Virginia, in 2017. Two years later, Briskman is on the ballot for local office. (Photo: BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI via Getty Images)
Briskman made national news in October 2017 when a White House photographer traveling with the president snapped a picture of her riding her bicycle and giving the middle finger to Trump’s motorcade as it passed her. The photo went viral immediately, with late-night talk show hosts cracking jokes about it and people on social media hailing the unidentified woman as a “she-ro.”
HuffPost was the first to identify Briskman, who said in an exclusive interview that her employer at the time, government contractor Akima LLC, fired her over the photo. Briskman went on to sue Akima LLC.
In the meantime, one of her friends set up a GoFundMe page for Briskman, a single mom of two, which raised a whopping $142,000.
“Two years ago I was fired for standing up to the backwards agenda of Donald Trump. But now my neighbors in Algonkian District have backed me up and rejected the Trump agenda,” Briskman told HuffPost Tuesday night. “We worked really hard on this campaign. It was a tough race. I’m excited to create a Loudoun County that works for everyone.”
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